Re: Ping Mental Health Professional

Hi Hierophant.

Your questions are definitely not easy to answer. They are incredibly complex and layered.

My training as a social worker and therapist helps me to allow the client/patient a space to be in touch with themselves. There are many types of therapies with many different theoretical frameworks. In my practice I use psychodynamic theories drawing from Winnicott, Bowlby, and Intersubjectivity Systems Theory.

Hypnosis is a specialty that I honestly know nothing about. Also, shock therapy is a medical treatment that I don't know anything about, and the same goes for lobotomies. Actually, I just got an interesting looking book about a man who was forced to get a lobotomy at age 12. It's called "My Lobotomy." I'm not sure about recovered memories, but I think that it is definitely possible for people to believe in things that never happened through influence.

"Good mental health" doesn't have a definition. You could say that baseline is good, or happiness, or functionality. I think it depends on the individual person and how they would define their own "good mental health." The word "good" is problematic. How would you define health?

I don't know the answer to the last question, I don't really know anything about it.