Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2017

The Unconscious in Functional and Dysfunctional States

Celestine O. Mume

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 The purpose of this essay is to give insight into the nature of the unconscious and to postulate that its dysfunction accounts (at least in part) through positive feedback mechanism for the necessity of psychotic patients to be on long term treatment. The paper also postulates that through negative feedback mechanisms, the unconscious maintains normal physiological functions. It is argued that if researchers show more interest in the study of the mind, our understanding of psychopathology will improve. 

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Celestine O. Mume, The Unconscious in Functional and Dysfunctional States, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-3 | MARCH‾2017

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