World Federation for Mental Health

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World Federation for Mental Health

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As noted by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), the concept of optimum mental health refers not to an absolute or ideal state but to the best possible state insofar as circumstances are alterable. Mental health is regarded as a condition of the individual, relative to the capacities…
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As noted by the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH), the concept of optimum mental health refers not to an absolute or ideal state but to the best possible state insofar as circumstances are alterable. Mental health is regarded as a condition of the individual, relative to the capacities…
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Harry Stack Sullivan
…II he helped establish the World Federation for Mental Health. He also founded (1938) and served as editor of the journal Psychiatry. During the later years of his life he more fully articulated his ideas in The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry and The Fusion of Psychiatry and Social Science (published…
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…II he helped establish the World Federation for Mental Health. He also founded (1938) and served as editor of the journal Psychiatry. During the later years of his life he more fully articulated his ideas in The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry and The Fusion of Psychiatry and Social Science (published…
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