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Criteria to Evaluate Models of Health

Review of six criteria by Jahoda for evaluating Positive Mental Health Models; definition of spheres of mental health, self definition, love definition, work definition, science of happiness Continue reading

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Life Way

Science of health and mind, basic psychic qualities or spheres that define both health and illness, definition of man in a psychological sense, personality model based on health, DSM too narrow, beyond Jahoda’s Criteria for Mental Health Continue reading

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Nathalie Ishizuka

Nathalie Leiko Ishizuka. Mentors who led her to explore an understanding of healthy human beings, a science of health, criteria for health models, defining health and happiness, and a personality model based on health (Lifetrack). Her interest in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the mind and applying assumptions about healthy human beings to a variety of disciplines including Olivier Williamson’s 2010 Nobel Laureate in Economics. The Japan crisis, individual and national transformation. Continue reading

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Dr. Yukio Ishizuka

Dr. Yukio Ishizuka, A Japanese Harvard trained psychiatrist presents a new model of Health and Happiness. His background in psychiatry, East-West thought, McKinsey, Mergers and Acquistions, as well as important mentors such as Dr. Taro Takemi, Jack Ewalt and others inspired him to question DSM Model, and define and quantify a personality model of health that fulfills the psychologist Maria Jahoda’s 6 criteria for Models of Positive Mental Health Continue reading

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Positive Mental Health (Lifetrack Model & Lifetrack Therapy)

Insight into positive definitions of health, subjective happiness, self, intimacy, achievement, wellbeing, stress, physical health, life purpose, objective subjective experience, personality, Lifetrack model and Lifetrack therapy, a positive mental health model that fulfills Jahoda’s criteria for mental health. Continue reading

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Positive Definition of Health and Mental Health

The Positive Mental Health Foundation site presents the latest on happiness and health, positive mental health, psychological needs and positive definitions of health and wellbeing: self (self definition), intimacy (love definition) and achievement (work definition). Explore a new personality model, optimal health, stress types, life purpose, life way, life questions, science of happiness and more. Continue reading

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Where Health and Entertainment Meet

“Today’s busy adults and curious kids need to be entertained. They are not going to be found pondering over health pamphlets, working through a stress management program, or reading self help books, unless they already have a life changing problem and are in real pain. By then its often too late. The divorce has happened, the kids are hanging out with the wrong crowd or addicted to drugs, and one’s job has become so stressful that you don’t sleep well at night,” says author and illustrator, Nathalie Ishizuka. Continue reading

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Spheres of Psychological Health: What Makes Us Happy?

Wellness is not the absence of disease. It is the presence of something — the question is of what? Continue reading

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