a neurotic obsession to think about eliminating the culprits or the neurotic compulsion to actually do it. George W. Bush played on a real threat, built it out of proportion to increase the phobia, then used that to develop the obsession about Iraqâs links with al Queda and their weapons of mass destructionâneither of which existed. Then came the compulsion to attack Iraq. Whether Bushâs real interest was to be a successful warrior or to control Iraqi oil, or whether it was just a neurotic adjustment to his inferiority. The answer will probably never be known.
PSYCHOSIS
âAs you know, the most serious mental illnesses are called psychoses. Psychosis can be organic, a result of purely physical causes like too much or too little dopamine of serotonin, or they can functional, being caused primarily by mental stresses. There are some experts who wish to change the definitions of neurotic and psychotic. They believe that neurosis should include all of the learned mental illnesses. Psychosis would then be used as the term that would cover all of the cases in which there was a physical cause, such as hereditarily abnormal brain functioning, problems caused by diseases such as syphilis, and problems caused by injury or drug ingestion.
âIt has been said that neurotics build castles in the air, and the psychotics live in them. And the psychiatrists collect the rent. Anyway, psychosis is way out there, in terms of whatâs normal. Under the traditional definition
PSYCHOSIS
âAs you know, the most serious mental illnesses are called psychoses. Psychosis can be organic, a result of purely physical causes like too much or too little dopamine of serotonin, or they can functional, being caused primarily by mental stresses. There are some experts who wish to change the definitions of neurotic and psychotic. They believe that neurosis should include all of the learned mental illnesses. Psychosis would then be used as the term that would cover all of the cases in which there was a physical cause, such as hereditarily abnormal brain functioning, problems caused by diseases such as syphilis, and problems caused by injury or drug ingestion.
âIt has been said that neurotics build castles in the air, and the psychotics live in them. And the psychiatrists collect the rent. Anyway, psychosis is way out there, in terms of whatâs normal. Under the traditional definition