How Does Jahoda Define Psychological Abnormality?

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Jahoda (1958), defines psychological abnormality as lack of ideal mental health. Ideal mental health must involve positive view of oneself accompanied by precise perception of reality. However, the values for ideal mental health are by and large difficult to measure and very challenging, resulting into people limitation to meet them in any case. The meaning fails to figure out the change of conditions at present that can affect an individual’s mental health, for example been unable to find job could lead to stress. The mental confusion at that point would not mean that a person has a mental disorder. The two forms of disorders preferred for this essay are Obsessive compulsive (OCD) and Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe, often chronic

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