that the cause of mental illness is error in operation of the programs or the establishment of erroneous programs. By modifying or learning to use these psychological programs correctly, mental illness can be treated precisely and thoroughly. The complete psychotherapy process is represented by the following: psychoanalysis + modification of psychological programs. To perform certain tasks, the living body undergoes a series of changes in physiology and needs to initiate a series of physiological responses. The abstract combination of these physiological changes and physiological responses is called the “psychological program.” The search for psychological activity programs mainly depends on psychological analysis and scientific hypnosis.
@Duan, thanks for this perspective. But how this view is different from prevailing ones in biopsychology? I find this same idea where you are describing interaction of body and mind. Psychologists know about this since the times of William James. We have evidence too, so such claims are not theoretical. But your idea seems only theoretical.
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This is not only the interaction of physiology and psychology, but also that the psychological phenomenon is a physiological phenomenon, and the psychological phenomenon is produced by different combinations of physiological responses. Shall I send you the full text of the paper? A few words are not clea
@Duan, I will go through this paper. Though your references in the paper seem unappealing, but keeping myself unbiased I will try to see the relevance of your model.
Steven Hertler approached obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (or rather its more adaptive version) from an evolutionary perspective. He argues that these traits - in milder form - werre and are highly adaptive in the agrarian societies that evolved in parts of the world with more moderate climats. See especially:
Hertler, S.C. (2015a). Migration load, ecological opportunity, and obsessive compulsive personality disorder etiology: obsessive character as an adaptation to seasonality. Evolutionary Psychological Science 1:52-67. DOI 10.1007/s40806-014-0009-x
Hertler, S.C. (2015b). The evolutionary logic of the obsessive trait complex: obsessive compulsive personality disorder as a complementary behavioral syndrome. Psychological Thought, psyct.psychopen.eu | 2193-7281.
The second one is open access but I can e-mail a copy of both to you . Of course, OCPD, is not OCD, but it is related to so-called "incompleteness-related OCD".
@ Peter Prudon, thank you so much for these references. They are very helpful.
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