Relational space: The Psychology of Health - CesenaToday

Into Ivano Frattini November 15, 2013

Into Health psychology is a movement that was born in the eighties in Europe and the United States. Following the change in the scientific field of Bio-psycho-social model of Engel (the person is a complex set of balances between these three factors), other than bio-medical, health psychology moves the ‘priority in health, the elimination or fight against the condition of a building health .

Into the light of the recent redefinition of the concept of health by the World Health Organization, which defines it as no more than an absence of disease, but the highest degree of well-being be reached by an individual , illness and health are no longer seen as the extremes of a continuum, where “health = no disease” or “illness less = more health,” but as two parallel dimensions and that different levels intertwine. A concept of health, no longer characterized by a simple absence or diminution of disease, or a cure as a “restitutio to integrum “, that is, a return to a previous state intact, but as a complex state determined by a balance of supplementary welfare and malaise.

Into A concept that moves away from the idea of ??a clinic resulting from Kline greek ( Kline , bed, klinikòs, that takes place in bed) or a bedridden patient who suffers passively care, but research in the person of those locked resources , which resulted in a pathological state, and that will lead to a condition of health or well-being. Besides the major psychotherapeutic orientations are always moved in this view, but ambiguity is created around them, because most of the terms used in the clinic are derived medical. Consider, in fact, the situation of classical psychoanalysis where the patient is lying on a cot. But even in this situation the work is to help the patient (ie active) so that it produces free verbal associations, to dissolve their conflicting nodes.

Into It seems so obvious, in this context, the importance of quality of life , conception often forgotten by the Bio-medical model, everything usually concentrated in the fight against the disease and prolonging survival.

Into The psychology of health then it is characterized by a commitment to the promotion of well-being, rather than the treatment, or even prevention of illness. The project will cover not only the set of persons suffering from illness, which remains, as mentioned above, an integral part of health psychology, but extends to the entire population, in contexts that are not relevant at all clinical environments. This can initiate collaboration between psychologists and various areas very distant from them, such as architects, urban planners, lawyers, sociologists, philosophers, artists, etc.. all working together to design plans, to improve the quality of life of their cities.

Into In conclusion I would add that we have described in the conception of health is extremely important to the quality of our interpersonal relationships . Inside the caves is the endless task of man, who will accompany him throughout the span of his life, which is the ability to know and be able to regulate their own emotions and the emotions. This, I think, that can be considered, the size needed for a lifetime, if I is allowed to use this term, “happy”. And as also this size, if poorly controlled, can be a source of deep unhappiness. But the affective regulation will be the subject of another section of this newsletter.