Psychogenic Perspective Analysis

There was a time when I use to live in my home town up north, when my friend and I were catching the train to go shopping. We were sitting at the train station waiting for the train to arrive, when we saw a man to the left of us making unusual movements while he waited for the train as well. The man was dressed in long khaki colored pants leather shoes and a long sleeve button up shirt. It was the summer time then and that day it was 109 degrees exactly. The man also had a very long, long sleeved trench coat on and a hat as well, while I am aware of different cultures and people dress differently, it was the man actions that came across abnormal to me. While he was waiting he was pacing back and forth clenching his coat and turning around so that his back was facing the train tracks. This type of behavior was abnormal for me, because an average individual would not be covered from head to toe …show more content…
The Psychogenic Perspective has more to do with cognition process and I believe that man was suffering from an arising mental health issue. I feel that he may have encountered mental abuse at a young age and it has now caught up with him. There was a seminar I once attended at Forsyth Tech for schizophrenia, and the instructor stated that mental illness is now arising in people in their early or late 20’s versus showing any signs as a child like it used to. Reasons while I feel he experienced mental abuse, I did a research paper on OCD for my General Psychology class and there was a study conducted on a high school aged girl who disclosed that she was picked on about her skin color being darker than a paler student in her class. Eventually the girl started to cover herself with layers of clothing in any weather climate to keep herself from getting any darker. My point is, mental stressors or emotional abuse could be the cause of that man’s abnormal