Mental illness

Greetings
I am a fellow researcher within the mental-health field and heartily
applaud the efforts of this list. As a private practice counselor, I
have similarly felt it my duty to conduct my own extensive research into the
communicational factors underlying mental illness. Indeed, the extreme
degree of disqualification associated with schizophrenia and the psychoses
formally works to obscure such an overall understanding: factors that only
truly become comprehensible within the expanded context of my affiliated
research into the character values/vices (as shown in the eight-part system
of master categories depicted below).

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+ + VICES OF EXCESS .......MENTAL ILLNESS
(Excessive Virtue) .......(Transitional Excess)

+ MAJOR VIRTUES........ LESSER VIRTUES
(Virtuous Mode) .......(Transitional Virtue)
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O NEUTRALITY STATUS
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- VICES OF DEFECT .......CRIMINALITY
(Absence of virtue)...... (Transitional Defect)

- - HYPERVIOLENCE...... HYPERCRIMINALITY
(Excessive Defect)...... (Transitional Hyperviolence)

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Although only the most basic set of categories is depicted above, each of
these eight major classifications is further subdivided into numerous
subcategories, with the overall system ultimately comprised of 1,040
individual terms. This, in turn, necessarily includes the 56 different
classifications of mental illness, as partially depicted (in schematic
fashion) immediately below.
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Narcissistic Borderline ......Obsession Phobia
Personality Personality ......Neurosis Neurosis

Dependent Avoidant .........Compulsion Anxiety
Personality Personality .....Neurosis Neurosis

PERSONALITY DISORDERS NEUROSIS
(Personal Double-Bind)...(Personal Counter-Double-Bind)

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Confabulatory Suspicious ......Confabulatory Fantastic
Euphoria Depression ..........Paraphrenia Paraphrenia

Pure Pure .............Expansive Incoherent
Mania Melancholy ......Paraphrenia Paraphrenia

MOOD .................PARANOID
DISORDERS (I) .........SCHIZOPHRENIA
(Group Double-Bind) (Group Counter Double-Bind)

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Enthusiastic Self-Torturing ....Proskinetic Negativistic
Euphoria Depression ............Catatonia Catatonia

Unproductive Harried .........Parakinetic Affected
Euphoria Depression ..........Catatonia Catatonia

MOOD .........................CATATONIC
DISORDERS (II) ..............SCHIZOPHRENIA
(Spiritual Double-Bind) (Spiritual Counter Double-Bind)

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Non-Partic. Non-Partic. ........Silly Insipid
Euphoria Depression .......Hebephrenia Hebephrenia

Hypochond. Hypochond. .......Eccentric Autistic
Euphoria Depression .......Hebephrenia Hebephrenia

MOOD ......................HEBEPHRENIC
DISORDERS (III) ...........SCHIZOPHRENIA
(Humanitarian Double-Bind) (Humanit. Counter Double-Bind)

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According to this latter diagram, the respective master system encompasses
virtually every major form of mental illness: including the personality
disorders, the neuroses, the mood disorders, and schizophrenia, as further
outlined within my newly released book (also described at its respective
web-site):
www.charactervalues.com

I am writing currently in hopes of drawing attention to this new
system in terms of the broader academic community (where perhaps it might
be put to greatest use).
I realize that much research has typically gone towards
the "disease" model of mental illness, with the current
genetic/psychopharmacological models of susceptibilities dominating the
research field. My current model of communicational factors is not mutually
exclusive in terms of this standard picture, in turn, serving in a
complimentary role in relation to the overall puzzle of mental illness.
Certainly, it clearly enjoys many exciting applications to counseling
psychology and talk therapy (as my own experience has served to
indicate).
I have
also posted an overall master diagram depicting the
408 main individual terms (including mental illness) at:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/fairhaven/Master_diagram.html

In conclusion, I feel that this new theoretical treatment could
potentially make a major difference towards ameliorating much of the
suffering afflicting the mentally-ill today.
With Best Regards,

John E. LaMuth M. S. (Counseling - CSUF)
www.charactervalues.com ***(newly updated)
fax 1-586-314-5960

P.O. Box 105
Lucerne Valley, CA 92356 USA

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Replies:

Re:Mental illness, by J LaMuth, 12/04/03 Re:Mental illness, by Bob, 12/05/03

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