The Content of the Categories "Norma-Pathology" and "Health-Illness" in the Context of Clinical Psychology

Abstract

In the presented work an attempt to theoretically rethink the existing approaches of understanding of the major conceptual continuums at children's psychiatry and clinical pathology is undertook. It is considered that the concepts "health" and "illness" — it is two important aspects of life which are closely connected and deeply interdependent among themselves. Though health represents a state that opposite to an illness, it can be connected with it various transitional states which have no clear boundary. Especially it is obvious for such complex problem as mental norm and mental pathology. Not incidentally today in science there are two approaches to understand a state of health: negative and positive ones.