Reply #393: Dr. Jung believed nonverbal behavior informed and possibly defined [View All]

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personality.

Behavioral disorders, as indexed by the DSM, are beholden to behavior evidenced, behavior observed, and behavior renderable into hospital clinical and nurses' progress notes.

Attending physicians attempt to get release forms signed to enhance the clinical generally and prior meds and family history especially, but absent this in patients who are nonberbal, the clinical assessment must determine if the communication is willful silence as a psychosocial response to circumstances, or if it is manifest evidence of underlying psychiatric malady. In the case of the latter, it is less easily treated, obviously, and linked to personality, definitely.

Jung believed the latter (which would likely not have endeared him to health insurance interests in our modern age). He also believed that such behavior was in many cases archetypal rather than socially inspired, with a potential genetic component, but in any case, that it occurred in personality unbidden rather than constructed as an id-related conflict, as Freud believed.

Nonverbal behavior is concomitant with personality in that either are defined from multiple origins, or potentially by multiple origins. Peer-to-peer reviews of board-certified psychiatrists do not make assessments in writing to insurance cooperatives without distinct phrases such as "It appears to this physician advisor" as opposed to "The clinical is absolutely clear."