Neurosis: Conflicts in Interpersonal Relationships - A Case Study Exploring the Effects of Early Interpersonal Relationships on the Adult Life of Five Neurotic Women in Treatment at Kings County Hospital, Mental Hygiene Clinic
Abstract
An individual's mental and emotional health is a reaction of his personality to the multiple stresses of the total environment. The point at which any individual becomes ill depends upon his constitutional stability and his stamina to withstand stress, upon the severity of the frustrations in his external environment, upon the stringency of his interpersonal relationships resulting in internal conflict or upon a combination of these factors. If prevention of mental illness is to become a reality for civilization we must learn more about environmental stress and the effects upon the individual. It is in the home, in the interrelations of parents and children, of brothers and sisters that healthy personalities and constructive social attitudes are developed and that insecurity, dependence, emotional instability and faulty patterns of thought most often emerge. Therefore, it is in the home that the training for mental health must begin.
Subject Area
Mental health|Individual & family studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Neuhaus, Ruby Hart, "Neurosis: Conflicts in Interpersonal Relationships - A Case Study Exploring the Effects of Early Interpersonal Relationships on the Adult Life of Five Neurotic Women in Treatment at Kings County Hospital, Mental Hygiene Clinic" (1957). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30509557.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30509557
