Transgenderism, Schizophrenia and Neurosis: Brain Abnormality or Coping Mechanisms? | Book Publisher International

Transgender individuals suffer from serious psycho-physiological problems. There is no empirical base for the belief that transgenderism is the consequence of brain abnormality. Studies challenge the validity of traditional theories of psychopathology, including the idea that the brain is the key to understanding behavioral disorders. A new theory, which, like Freud, focuses on the explanation of bizarre behaviors, claims that these bizarre behaviors are coping mechanisms, which individuals intuitively adopt when faced with an intolerable level of stress. A multi-case study, consisting of a large variety of behavioral disorders, demonstrates that all shared the same diagnostic criteria, and etiology. All blocked the accessibility of stress-related thoughts and enhanced the individual’s ability to exercise control over the stressor. This theory can integrate all therapeutic methods pertaining to bizarre behaviors into one theoretical framework. An examination of relevant data indicates that gender identity conversion therapy can be highly effective for transgender individuals if accompanied by insight and coping skills training.

 

Author (s) Details

Yacov Rofé
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

 

Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-48119-04-9

Psycho-Bizarreness Theory: A Rational, Anti-psychiatric Theory of Madness | Chapter 11 | Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 1

 

No theory is more emblematic of the modern crisis in psychopathology than the brain-disease model of schizophrenia. Theories that posit neurological origins for schizophrenia ignore the significant percentage of patients who display no brain abnormality or who recover without drugs. Psycho-Bizarreness Theory (PBT), detailed in this article, as well as in a recent book [1], is a new non-neurological theory of madness that views schizophrenia and other bizarre behaviors, such as criminal insanity and neurosis, as rational coping mechanisms. Certain people, in the face of intolerable stress, will unconsciously adopt a bizarre behavior precisely tailored to neutralize their stressor and to block stress-related thoughts. Their brain abnormalities serve primarily as sources of stress, not of disease. Thus, by abandoning the deterministic axiomatic assumption, common to all theories of traditional theories of psychopathology, and adopting the idea that madness is a rational coping mechanism, rather than a mental or neurological disease, the new theory is able to integrate the seemingly incompatible data, obtained by rival theories in this field, into one coherent theoretical system.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

Yacov Rofe
Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

 

Yochav Rofe
Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

 

Please See the book here :-  https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cpassr/v1/580

Psycho-Bizarreness Theory: A Rational, Anti-psychiatric Theory of Madness | Chapter 11 | Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 1

 

No theory is more emblematic of the modern crisis in psychopathology than the brain-disease model of schizophrenia. Theories that posit neurological origins for schizophrenia ignore the significant percentage of patients who display no brain abnormality or who recover without drugs. Psycho-Bizarreness Theory (PBT), detailed in this article, as well as in a recent book [1], is a new non-neurological theory of madness that views schizophrenia and other bizarre behaviors, such as criminal insanity and neurosis, as rational coping mechanisms. Certain people, in the face of intolerable stress, will unconsciously adopt a bizarre behavior precisely tailored to neutralize their stressor and to block stress-related thoughts. Their brain abnormalities serve primarily as sources of stress, not of disease. Thus, by abandoning the deterministic axiomatic assumption, common to all theories of traditional theories of psychopathology, and adopting the idea that madness is a rational coping mechanism, rather than a mental or neurological disease, the new theory is able to integrate the seemingly incompatible data, obtained by rival theories in this field, into one coherent theoretical system.

 

Author(s) Details:

 

Yacov Rofe

Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

 

Yochav Rofe

Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

 

 Please see the book here:   https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cpassr/v1/580

Psycho-Bizarreness Theory: A Rational, Anti-psychiatric Theory of Madness| Chapter 11 | Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 1

 

No theory is more emblematic of the modern crisis in psychopathology than the brain-disease model of schizophrenia. Theories that posit neurological origins for schizophrenia ignore the significant percentage of patients who display no brain abnormality or who recover without drugs. Psycho-Bizarreness Theory (PBT), detailed in this article, as well as in a recent book [1], is a new non-neurological theory of madness that views schizophrenia and other bizarre behaviors, such as criminal insanity and neurosis, as rational coping mechanisms. Certain people, in the face of intolerable stress, will unconsciously adopt a bizarre behavior precisely tailored to neutralize their stressor and to block stress-related thoughts. Their brain abnormalities serve primarily as sources of stress, not of disease. Thus, by abandoning the deterministic axiomatic assumption, common to all theories of traditional theories of psychopathology, and adopting the idea that madness is a rational coping mechanism, rather than a mental or neurological disease, the new theory is able to integrate the seemingly incompatible data, obtained by rival theories in this field, into one coherent theoretical system.

Author(s) Details:

Yacov Rofé
Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar‐Ilan University, Ramat‐Gan, Israel.

Yochav Rofé
Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar‐Ilan University, Ramat‐Gan, Israel.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CPASSR-V1/article/view/15031