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    Decoding the Riddle of Mental Illness

    Decoding the Riddle of Mental Illness through an breakthrough communicational dynamic. Here, mental illness is primarily regarded as a physical disorder or a chemical imbalance, although clear-cut signs within the brain have eluded convincing documentation. Indeed, the most obvious outward signpost is a disturbance in the ability to communicate in an interpersonal sense, often in an exaggerated or bizarre fashion. The emotions are similarly affected to extreme degree, as witnessed in profound nature of the mood disorders such as mania or melancholy.
    An overall communicational model of mental illness has conspicuously been lacking due to the daunting conceptual challenges at issue. As with many other such great enigmas, the solution often emerges from advances in a parallel field of inquiry -- such as in Communications Theory. Indeed, a breakthrough in the understanding of affective (or emotionally charged) language has recently been proposed: wherein incorporating the communicational factors underlying mental illness within a general eight-part schematic depicted.


    +  +  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)    (Transit. Hyperviolence)

    This diagram actually represents a radical expansion upon Aristotle's enduring Theory of the Mean (originally defined as a more basic three-part model). When the six additional affective categories are further added into the mix, the grand total jumps to 408 individual terms (including 56 individual forms of mental illness). This total breaks down into the eight forms of the personality disorders, eight forms of the neuroses, and twenty forms each for the mood disorders and schizophrenia: as partially depicted.

    Narcissistic  Personality >>>  Obsession  Neurosis
    Confabulatory  Euphoria >>> Confab.  Paraphrenia
    Enthusiastic  Euphoria >>>  Proskinetic  Catatonia
    Non-Participatory Euphoria >>>  Silly Hebephrenia

    Borderline  Personality    >>>    Phobia  Neurosis
    Suspicious Depression  >>>  Fantastic  Paraphrenia
    Self-Torturing Depression >>> Negativistic Catatonia
    Non-Participatory Depression >>> Insipid Hebephrenia

    Dependent  Personality  >>>  Compulsion  Neurosis
    Pure  Mania   >>>    Expansive  Paraphrenia
    Unproductive  Euphoria  >>>  Parakinetic Catatonia
    Hypochondriacal Euphoria  >>>  Eccentric Hebephrenia

    Avoidant  Personality   >>>  Anxiety  Neurosis
    Pure  Melancholy  >>>  Incoherent  Paraphrenia
    Harried  Depression    >>>   Affected  Catatonia
    Hypochondriacal Depression >>> Autistic Hebephrenia

    Here, mental illness is functionally consistent with an emotional style of communicational dynamic: one that encompasses certain other forms of human communication. Indeed, the extreme symptomology associated with mental illness effectively distorts or exaggerates the overall conceptual framework, generally obscuring the cognitive aspects being communicated. Consequently, the key to understanding these elusive factors ultimately resides in the context of more routine communication, where the various emotional parameters can be more accurately ascertained. When this virtuous realm is further contrasted with the parallel realm of the vices, the resultant master format expands to a grand total of 160 individual terms, offering a fitting contextual background towards resolving the enigma of mental illness -- with considerable applications in terms of treatment and diagnosis.

     
    Submitting Author:
    Mr. John E LaMuth
    Authors:
    Mr. John LaMuth
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    Rationality Based World Peace

    Rationality Based World Peace -- The most effective path to a rationality-based world peace and harmony necessarily entails an evolving truce between the rationally-based secular world and the long-standing traditions that buttress organized spirituality.

    This achievement is based upon a breakthrough hierarchial grounding of traditional value ethics within a scientific behavioral foundation - as partially depicted here.

    Solicitousness . Rewards ..... Submissive . Leniency
    Nostalgia . Worship ......... Guilt . Blame
    Glory . Prudence ............. Honor . Justice
    Providence . Faith ........... Liberty . Hope
    Grace . Beauty ................ Free-will . Truth
    Tranquility . Ecstasy ............ Equality . Bliss

    Appetite . + Reinforce .... Aversion . Neg. Reinforce.
    Desire . Approval ............... Worry . Concern
    Dignity . Temperance ........... Integrity . Fortitude
    Civility . Charity ............... Austerity . Decency
    Magnanim. . Goodness ............. Equanimity . Wisdom
    Love . Joy ....................... Peace . Harmony

    A similar pattern further extends to the contrasting behavioral paradigm of punishment, resulting in a parallel hierarchy of the major categories of the vices also depicted, permitting a complete ethical system.

    No Solicitous. . No Rewards ..No Submiss. . No Leniency
    Laziness . Treachery ........... Negligence . Vindictiveness
    Infamy . Insurgency................. Dishonor . Vengeance
    Prodigality . Betrayal.....................Slavery . Despair
    Wrath . Ugliness.......................Tyranny . Hypocrisy
    Anger . Abomination.....................Prejudice . Perdition

    No Appetite . Punishment. .... No Aversion . - Punish.
    Apathy . Spite .......................... Indifference . Malice
    Foolishness . Gluttony.................Caprice . Cowardice
    Vulgarity . Avarice...................Cruelty . Antagonism
    Oppression . Evil.....................Persecution . Cunning
    Hatred . Iniquity....................Belligerence . Turpitude

    Once the sacred virtues/values of religions are seen to actually have an instinctual foundation in the terminology of behavioral conditioning, they will lose much of their mystical mandate and impact - in essence "The Great Secular Equalizer". Any singular claims to religious truth must now gradually be scaled back, with none being any more valid than that of any other religion —leading to less hubristic scriptural claims and perhaps even greater interreligious cooperation—in strict competition with a much more enhanced and dynamic secular perspective (which will now be the gate-keeper for such a scientifically-based brand of ethicism)

    This should gradually lead religions away from extremist perspectives and hopefully the phasing out of mindless global terrorism. This newly secularized brand of ethics is well-placed for such a mediation role, extending beyond the basic virtues and values to encompass Aristotle's vices of defect and excess, criminality and hypercriminality, and even the communicational factors underlying the mental disorders.

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

    + MAJOR VIRTUES ........ LESSER VIRTUES
    (Virtuous Mode) ............ (Transitional Virtue)

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    O ...... NEUTRALITY STATUS

    ________________________________________

    -- VICES OF DEFECT ........ CRIMINALITY
    (Absence of virtue) ............ (Transitional Defect)

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

     
    Submitting Author:
    Mr. John E LaMuth
    Authors:
    Mr. John LaMuth

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