The concept of health is a challenge of great complexity in terms
of theoretical, methodological and intervention within the
idiographic frame. Health cannot be considered an abstract
condition, but a means, a resource aimed at achieving objectives
that relate to the ability of people to lead their lives in a
productive way- individually, socially, and economically. Health is
a process that is not based on the definition of standards and
categories on the basis of which typifying the states of health.
Rather, it has to be considered a process, on a large scale and on
many entangled levels, aimed at generating a culture of the health
as a resource for individuals and communities and to promote skills
needed to transform these resources into developmental goals. The
notion of health, indeed, defined and interpreted in terms of
""state"" and not of process, meets the immediate paradox of being
an indicator of normativity by reason of which we risk a
proliferation of new and potentially infinite forms of
""deviation"". The approach of the idiographic sciences (see
previous volumes of the Yearbook Idiographic Science Series, by
same publisher IAP) considers that every psychological process (but
in general every process, from organic to the social and cultural
ones) is characterized by a contextual, situated and contingent
dynamics. That dynamics is always characterized by a never-ending
opening of its cycles and great variability. Conditions of
stagnation and hypostatization are characteristic of all forms of
disease (physical, mental and social) that sclerotize relational
links between people and their environments. Health is therefore a
process that presents oscillation in the same way of any
developmental process that has moments of crisis and rupture in
order to re-organize new forms of relationship with the social and
cultural environment. This book represent a fruitful way to deep
many cogent issues and to dialogue with an idiographic perspective
in order to discuss the concept of health, to define its cultural
meanings and possible polysemy (e.g., wellness, care, hygiene,
quality of life, resilience, prevention, healing,
deviation/normality, subjective potentiality for development,
etc.), its areas of pertinence and intervention (somatic,
psychological, social) trying to offer possible alternatives to the
""normalization"" of health and creating new incentives for the
reflection.
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