ABSTRACT
The movement from the reality of human experience to the unreality of “a mental disorder for every difficulty” has been fast-tracked to gospel—and mental health professionals may have become one of its unwitting victims and co-conspirators. In addition to the genuine help available, it would be wonderful if in the future mental health professionals could speak with a new type of professional: a human experience specialist. To say that the “mental health” of all of the people was affected by the fact of a world conflagration is to make a bad joke. Psychology posits many “theories of motivation". These include an instinct theory of motivation, an incentive theory of motivation, a drive theory of motivation, an arousal theory of motivation, a humanistic theory of motivation, and more. R. D. Laing portrayed “mental disorders” rather more as breakthroughs than breakdowns: episodes of a kind of battle for health, clarity, and spiritual relief that required a self-directed plunge into darkness.
