Breadth of association in psychiatric patients

✍ Scribed by W. J. Craig

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 410 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(196701)23:1<11::aid-jclp2270230103>3.0.co;2-k

✦ Synopsis

PSYCHOLOGY 11 logical states. It is assumed that in the normal person, part functions are integrated harmoniously in support of what the person is doing at the moment. Integrative psychology regards the traditional psychological functions of perception, learning, motivation, etc., as necessary components of integrated states, and assumes that the psychologist understands the contribution which these subfunctions make to the psychological state of the moment. These subfunctions assume special importance only when they are not functioning properly-normally they function silently in support of the activity of the moment.

Integrative psychology primarily is concerned with the global unit of the integrated state of the person living in the world-working out his life problems in the quest for self-actualization. Integration is an existential imperative. Without the highest levels of integration, the person cannot function efficiently.

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