i'd like to have much more information about mental health? is there a difference between mental health and psychic health

-- bien-aime bruno (rackyonex@yahoo.fr), March 25, 2003

Answers

Howdy, well you can probably have these two words mean practically any thing you want them to, to suit the situation. Maybe some folks would say that they mean the same thing. But, no self respecting research psychologist I know would ever use the word psychic as they wouldn't want anyone to think they were philosophical. They're scientists, and if they even recognize the construct mind, they are going to call it mental. Psychic has conotations of soul, and soul is too religious for a scientist. OK?

Best, David

-- david clark (doclark@yorku.ca), March 26, 2003.

For that matter, many research scientists don't believe in minds either, so mental health wouldn't appeal to them either. But David is right, the phrases essentially mean the same thing. "Psychic health" would be used by psychodynamic psychologists who believe in the psyche.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), March 26, 2003.