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THEORY
Integration,
values and mental health
Integration is commonly considered to be
essential to the healthy personality. It has been found in the definition of
many personality psychologists and plays a central role in health. Over a long
period of time integration has been
identified as having the following characteristics: (a) The presence of a
unifying life theme, (b) an overriding goal, giving meaning to all of life, and
(c) values that give direction to a goal (Csikszentmihalyi, 2009, Levy, 1990,
Lecky, 2010).
Allport (1968) is far and away the expert
in the field of meaning and values in psychology. He identifies different life
themes that can give meaning to life. The healthy person, according to Allport,
is the one who can give meaning to his life through choosing one of these life
themes. Everyone eventually chooses a life theme that is meaningful to them. R.
May (personal communication, August 30,
1983) said that the struggle between meaningfulness and a lack of meaning
represented the human being’s single most difficult challenge.
METHODOLOGY
The therapeutic
team
A therapeutic team was employed
at each clinical site that had a psychologist, social worker, and medical
specialist. The site was contacted to
obtain permission to carry out the research. There were two treatment groups, criminals
and non-criminals. All participants
have an intake interview and then are placed in their therapy groups. The results of a demographic questionnaire
show that 75% of the participants were
White, 20% were African Americans and
five percent were Asian. American. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
Inventory (MMPI) was administered to all participants.
References:
Allport, G.W.
(1968). The Person in Psychology.
Boston: Beacon Press.
Csikszentmihalyi,
M. (2009). Analyzing flow. Current
Issues in Human Growth and Development,
27(10), pp 201-235.
Lecky, P. (2010,
January 11). Meaning and health. The
New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com
Levy, P. (1990).
Conceptions of personality. New York: Random House.
May, R. (1983).
Personal communication. Saybrook
Institute, San Francisco, California.
