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A Logical Analysis of Mental Health… M. Najafi & H. Vakili (95
abnormality. We will amplify others but this report is an
this idea in the last part. indirect conception.
Similarly, psychotherapists
5. Introspection can diagnose mental illnesses
Another characteristic that according to some symptoms
could help us to identify the that exist in the behaviors and
abnormality is introspection. words of a patient. Nevertheless,
The control over behaviors, only the ill man could directly
self-confidence, and feel fears, anxiety, depression,
satisfaction are inner senses and so forth.
that are not determinable by It should be asserted that
objective criteria. This is only mental illnesses only be
an anxious one who can determined by introspection
conceive of the anxiety. while objective criteria are
No one could detect the nothing; But the signs of
fear of a fearful man except disorders occurring in the mind.
himself. Fears, anxieties, The mental disorder
satisfaction, and other accounts for abnormal
feelings are subjective. They behavior and words. Outer
are private and no one could factors lead us to realize
directly conceive them save mental problems. Therefore,
their subjects. We emphasize the mental problem should
directness because one’s not be considered identical
feelings could be indirectly with such signs.
conceived by others. One Consequently, mental illnesses
could express their feelings to
are to be defined as abnormal
states of mind.
