Open AccessTACHYCARDIA MISDIAGNOSED AS PSYCHOTIC MENTAL ILLNESS.
Author(s) -
Karan R. Aggarwala
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of medical and biomedical studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-8698
pISSN - 2589-868X
DOI - 10.32553/ijmbs.v5i3.1754
Subject(s) - memoir , psychology , personality , psychoanalysis , mental illness , subject (documents) , salience (neuroscience) , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , mental health , history , art history , library science , computer science
Many people with similar or related life challenges may decide not to share personal information of the kind described in the present memoir. My sharing is intended in defense of my cognitive salience: despite having been diagnosed as supposedly “psychotic.” It is my hope that this memoir might help tip the scales in favor of “psycho-social” rather than “in-your-head,” models of personality disorder (1, 2, 3). Superior psychological models can be found (4); even before the gross statistics of Charles Spearman (1863 to 1945), AND before the forced conditioning experimentations of Ivan Pavlov (1849 to 1936), AND as well before the dubious Oral-Anal Hypothesis of Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939). Some of these models (4) were presented by names such as Francis Galton (1822 to 1911), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 to 1894), and Wilhelm Wundt (1832 to 1920): leaders of the subject area-domains commonly referred to as Experimental Psychology and Sensory Physiology.