This paper attempts to reveal through case analysis that psychological activities are a set of programs and 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.
According to my humble opinion you should refrain from talking about psychoanalysis and from faulting Freud's psychoanalysis. The orthodox psychoanalysis applied e.g. in Finland is very different from what you are referring to in your paper. Call it psychological activity-modification or some words you invent then you hold the reader's interest.
Thanks！You're right "Psychoanalysis"in my paper is not the same as Freud's psychoanalysis.I talk about Freud's theory in such a way that it can be misunderstood.
S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist
Thanks！You're right "Psychoanalysis"in my paper is not the same as Freud's psychoanalysis.I talk about Freud's theory in such a way that it can be misunderstood.
You have an interesting male on the spectrum somewhere perspective that compels you to such mechanistic thinking; it must be comforting to you at some level to iron out all the complexity of organisms and render them under your total control. Hmmm.
Nancy Kay Merbitz
Yes,organisms are comples.But"psychological program" are inherently inherited,such as sexual instincts,acquired in life,such as persomality.
Nancy Kay Merbitz
The psychological program can also be divided into innate and acquired programs. Innate programs are natural instincts, such as pupil dilation when in danger and saliva secretion when seeing food; psychological mechanisms and adaptations in evolutionary psychology are innate programs. Acquired programs are those that the living organism actively or passively establishes during life after birth, such as personality psychological programs. Due to the evolution of life, the innate program is usually corrected repeatedly and is usually not erroneous, but it may be used inappropriately, thus creating mental and psychological barriers. Acquired programs, on the other hand, are very error-prone, but they are also easier to modify.
People depending on their genetic histories or environmental factors acquire the coping strategies required for interacting with the world and the challenges therein. These strategies are indeed psychological programs or multiple intelligences . Notably, when things go awry , as in case of a mental illness , the developed programs lose their productivity and the afflicted person fails to satisfy the normative social standards essential for self reflection and self monitoring . As such, certain psychological programs (e.g., behavior therapy) may be employed to help the individual. Mental illnesses are invisible to the naked eye because many people assume you are not ill unless they see the symptoms of particular sicknesses.
And do you think that other behavioral patterns of organisms are completely understood and modifiable by smart guys like yourself? Think again; we don’t even understand the behavior of individual cells yet, and ramping up from there will not be some direct line of mechanistic knowledge-accretion.
Nancy Kay Merbitz
Because the behavior of individual cells is more difficult to understand.However,a person's psychological program can be obtained through psychoanalysis,and our psychoanalysis of patient is to find his or her psychological program.
Nancy Kay Merbitz
Psychological programs can indeed be altered with conscious effort. Psychological programs constitute a series of actions in our mind and body. Our consciousness can exert conscious and limited control over our body and physiology (this is determined by the nature of life itself; life is intelligent, has free will and the ability for subjective initiatives. Such subjective initiatives not only refer to the ability to control the external environment, such as lifting a glass but also the ability to control and regulate our own physiological activities). We can consciously choose to initiate or not to initiate certain physiological activities, which in turn alters our psychological programming. Similar to how computers can be programmed, human beings can also program themselves in certain ways.
Subjective consciousness can regulate and influence physiological activities: this is the foundation of the alterability of psychological programs. For instance, when we are upset with someone and about to lose our temper, we can relax our nerves and ease the urge to lash out by taking deep breaths. This action entails conscious control of our physiological activities, although such a method of control may not always be the most appropriate. As another example, in the middle of class, a student who suddenly feels a strong urge to urinate but chooses to wait for the class to end also exerts conscious control over the physiological aspects of the body. Therefore, when consciousness influences and alters the physiological activities of psychological programs, it can alter such psychological programming.
Many existing psychological treatments work by changing and affecting psychological programs. For example, cognitive behavioral treatment focuses on changing the sources of the program, such as beliefs and values.
Biofeedback therapy works by consciously controlling physiological feedback, which is also a way of altering psychological programming.
The principle of humanistic therapy is to encourage patients to utilize their own psychological programs, because in many patients, their disorder stems from the inability of their psychological programs to adapt to life and society. Adopting a patient-centered approach, humanistic therapy enables patients, with the guidance of therapists, to use the psychological programs that they are usually unable to use under other circumstances, consequently relieving their pain. Moreover, by allowing the original psychological program to operate freely and securely, humanistic therapy allows the patients to become aware of the inappropriateness of particular psychological programming. Similar to Freud’s free association or hypnosis and consciousness, the free and relaxed operation of humanistic therapy allows the client to gain awareness and recall the operational errors in their psychological programs, thereby achieving a therapeutic effect.
Behavioral therapy controls and changes one of the forms of expression of psychological programming, namely, explicit behavior.
Even psychotropic drugs are designed to directly control and influence the end result of psychological program operation, i.e., physiological response and physical action.
Every time a person does a certain activity,such as eating,you see chopsticks and bowls in your eyes,and then your brain issues instructions,your arm muscles are tense ,you pick up chopsticks,your stomach secretes stomach acid,and this series of physiological responses ,are you start the psychological program.You are a robot,only you program yourself.
If you give yourself another order when you eat,for example,if you think you're eating too much food and you're on a diet,then your brain gives you an order to fast ,your stomach acid will decrease secretion,and your appetite(also a physiological program) will decrease.Your eating process is out of order,and that's how anorexia comes in.
Nancy Kay Merbitz
Hi, four years have passed. Do you have a new view of my theory?
I fail to see how an individual cell can be more complicated than a human being made up of many many cells. Do you have updates of your theory? Am I misunderstanding it?
Nancy Kay Merbitz
I did not say that a single cell is more complex than humans. My theory is updated to changing the word "psychological program" to "psychological process" to see if you are easier to understand.
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