Development and treatment of pseudo-mental illness.
This article describes common life-history themes and intervention strategies with 25 patients who seemed overeager to regard themselves as mentally ill and had aggressively sought treatment for more than two years with little improvement. What they seemed to require was an approach that challenged this self-image, and helped them to organize their past experiences around a more constructive and satisfying identity.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004651:Employment; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007063:Identity Crisis; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012652:Self Mutilation; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012923:Social Class; D012934:Social Isolation; D013997:Time Factors