ABSTRACT
Chapter 7, Subjective minds and general laws, highlights the restricted and one-dimensional focus that characterizes mainstream mental health care language and introduces an alternative ‘un-coded’ poetic way into the human mind that engages the following fundamental questions: What really is a person? Can a person be ‘found’ or conceptually mapped through general laws? The chapter concludes that the way that a person adapts to a situation is dependent on several conditions. Such adaptation needs to be looked at by different disciplines. From the side of the person we must take into consideration our forms of imagination, our life experiences, our biological body, our own unique personality, the persons we meet, and how we and the other person want to be seen reciprocally. It also depends on the situation itself. If no one knows how subjective experience is creative in situations, how can the mental health care worker be obligated to help people according to standardized manuals that know nothing about a person’s unique configurations of feelings, imaginations, and experiences? A mental health care service with little place for fantasy and imagination has little place for the psychic phenomena that rule our lives.
