Is positive thinking really so healthy that, as Martin Seligman
(2000) and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi passionately thus argued, "we
believe that a psychology of positive human functioning will arise,
which achieves a scientific understanding and effective
interventions to build thriving individuals, families, and
communities"? This optimistic view on positive thinking for health
can be contrasted with an opposing view by Barbara Ehrenreich
(2009), who "extensively critiqued 'positive psychology'" and
showed "how obsessive positive thinking impedes productive action,
causes delusional assessments of situations, and people are then
blamed for not visualising hard enough and thus 'attracting'
failure even in situations when 'masses of lives were lost'." (WK
2013; R Byrne 2006) Contrary to these opposing views (and other
ones as will be discussed in the book), health care (in relation to
mental health and physical health in the context of mind and body)
are neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable)
to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides)
would like us to believe. Surely, this questioning of the opposing
views on health care does not suggest that the study of health care
is worthless, or that those fields (related to health care) like
medicine, chiropractic, health system, dentistry, health info tech,
nursing, psychiatrics, clinical psychology, occupational therapy,
pharmacy, allied health, and so on are unimportant. Needless to
say, neither of these extreme views is reasonable. Instead, this
book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of
health care, especially in the dialectic relationships between
mental health and physical health in the context of mind and body
-- while learning from different approaches in the literature but
without favouring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they
are not necessarily compatible with each other). More specifically,
this book offers a new theory (that is, the interconnected theory
of health care) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way
and is organised in four chapters.
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