Terve - take a closer look to Anne Wilson Schaef "Living In Process"

Terve Thyra - thank you, I'll do it.

I think what the psychiatry today needs concerning psychotic and border-line patients is introspectio. I somehow get a strange feeling when reading medical magazines. I usually can only read rapports of statistical surveys and meta-analyses, cohorts etc. Who understands individual human minds ? Collega Sigmund Freud was quite good in that. I think that we should try to understand the people who get sick in our contexts with some other methods than what we do today. We must of course help them in their painful situations. But we should try to find ways to get more information about the ways of experience by the people in crisis. Not only prevent them from being sensitive. I think that true progress in psychiatry lies in appreciating their experience and trying to solve their grammaries - whatever they are.

Huomenta!

Thank you for bringing up such important view of the human being! My answer will not exactly be an answer on your question.

My paradigm is based in a ontological unitary view in the becoming human being. That means, shortly, and with risks for misunderstanding, that human becoming is the essence and the efficient for people who are suffering as human being (not suffering from something), to heal and to re habilitate their dignity. My thoughts are based in the caritative paradigm in health sciences, Caring science, on the Caritative theory by Katie Eriksson (you find a similar name, but wrong person here in research gate). Here Scholars and adepts have published during 30 years of research hundreds of reports in Caring science, with a caritative perspective. My oncoming research (dr dissertation of the idea of re habilitation) will be finished this year, which enlighten human ontological dignity as re habilitating. In Norway a Nordic research lead by Dagfinn Nåden (with 11 other researchers) about human dignity finished in 2014, have published several research reports/articles about dignity. One of the project team, Trygve Aasgaard, has also focused on music as therapeutic in different situations in nursing, as creating music, playing, listening and being and becoming. 

So, summa summarum, there are other ways than medical treatments - to see and to meet the human being as a unit, where body, soul and spirit are not spitted apart - and art, music, beauty and so on, are anchored in the unity - where the spiritual dimension probably plays an important role... and this impacts also in methodological sence, where hermeneutics, to understand, becomes more relevant than statistic records.

Thank you for your time,

best regards Theresa Andell

Huomenta ! Thank you for your letter, Theresa. Dignity is an important item. That is what we need everywhere. I'll write later more concerning the items you wrote about.

Best regards

Antti

Päivää Theresa, and thank you ! Päivää all you other scholarly minds !  I'll mention some things which I think are important in your letter and/or otherwise in this topic. You mention h u m a n   d i g n i t y . That is important. When many physicians or nurses treat patients hastily and difficult time schedules, such a core thing may be neglected.

I have already for two or three decades ago  known, more or less, about the works of Katie Eriksson and some others in  C a r i n g   s c i e n c e . They are important. From the point of view of a practising physician, or a medical scholar, it is reason to pay atttention to the fact that mos physicians today d o   n o t   k n ow    m u c h  about Cariing science (Hoitotiede in Finnish, Vårdvetenskap in Swedish). Therefore the c o m m u n i c a t i on   between laboratory medicine physicians and caring science nurses/people with other educations may be difficult.

I think that p s y c h i a t r i c  d i a g n o s e s  are actually things which are hard to define precisely scientifically. Most of us are sometimes e.g. "neurotic", "confused". "depressed" or "borderline cases". Mental conditions which are quite dynamic, not static,  should be actually be described, side by side, by at least three parts: a) people with symptoms/ailments themselves, and b) physicians, nurses and other professionals . But, c) the condition of the suffering person should be made by his/her family or other near-living - and other - people too. So, these definitions by three involved groups maybe would help us to understand, better than before, what is going on in our society, in the minds and bodies of the ailing people, and in us, in the professional medical/nursing contexts.The dynamic, often rapidly changing experience of the condition should be remembered.

Such a medicinal paradigma, in which  o b s e r v a t i o n   f r o m   o u t s i d e  is primarily used, has its own importance. But it is good to remember that from the point of introspectio (of the person) it (observation) is often superficial, can be misleading,  and is not always able to serve reliable basis to communication with sick people. I think that only few physicians seem to know and express how difficult it is to describe human psyche. Only some of them seem to know by o w n e x p e r i e n c e , how the psychiatric drugs work when one is feeling mentally bad.

I would like to emphasize the  o w n  e x p e r i e n c e s  of the ailing people when they are feeling sick,  a n d when they are getting medical drugs and other treatments, as an i m p o r t a n t  extra basis that could lead to a new and better understanding and to new threpeutic ideas to help them.

Best regards

Antti

Thank you Antti for your comments! I hope you will find some of these new therapeutic ideas!

best regards

Theresa