INTRODUCTION
Mental health is the state of psychological well-being that includes both subjective
comfort and the capacity to function effectively with others, the definition of
mental health invariably includes some value.a statement about how an individual should
live bis or .her life; thus there are almost as many psychological theories.
Mental health means more than the absence of unidentifiable disorder or mental illness,
positive mental Jiealth includes the ability to experience joy or to have a ''peak
experience" Attempts have been made to relate mental health, not only to
specific acts which are dependent on cultural noIIDs but to patterns
styles of acting, such as flexibility in meeting new situations, ability to
perceive, reality without 4istortion, biked on it. dividual need and the capacity to
understand someone else's point of view,
, some psychologists, such as 'R.D. LAING' & ' THOMAS SZASZ
argue that the terms mental health and mental illness should be dropped altogether
because of issues. regarding how people are to live are moral and legal rather than psychological
or scientific. Sigmund Freud's famous view that health is the capacity "to work and to love" is
still widely accepted.
