Prof Sam Vaknin
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Control, Reality in Mental Illness
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36:09Now PlayingMental illness not loss of control - but too much control (rigidity) owing to fear of loss of control (catastrophizing, paranoia, world hostile, fantasy).
Mental illness is not lack of access to reality but a set of defenses against excessive unmediated access (“no skin”).
Hyperactivity like tetanus and extreme fever (motor nerve emits high rate of action potentials, hyperrflexia, spasticity) and mental illness is like a muscle relaxant (e.g., curare).
Shutting out external reality (too much to process, impossible to control) in preference to internal, rigidly controlled one.
“Hyperreflexivity” refers to a form of exaggerated self-awareness (elaborated below) that tends to undermine the stability of normal self-experience or “center of experiential gravity” (Nelson and Sass, 2017).
Examples:
OCD
Personality disorders
Psychosis (catatonia, cognitive-behavioral-attitudinal rigidity)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (hyperfixation, stimming, repetition, stereotypy, concrete thinking).
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