{"id":38448,"date":"2019-11-14T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38448"},"modified":"2019-11-14T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:28:41","slug":"psychology-neurosis-vs-psychosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/psychology-neurosis-vs-psychosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology: neurosis vs psychosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about psychological terms: the tutor mentions a possible distinction between neurosis and psychosis.<\/h2>\n<p>\nOver the years, I&#8217;ve developed the perception that neurosis and psychosis both involve a different viewpoint of reality from &#8220;typical.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI would have gone on to say that, when a person suffers neurosis, two ideas hold:\n<ol>\n<li>Said person knows their viewpoint is different from those around them, and how.<\/li>\n<li>Said person is aware of the need to hide their different point of view in order to fit in and function.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<p>My distinction would then be that, with psychosis, the person under it is unaware their viewpoint is different; rather, they believe that others agree with them. Therefore, they are willing to take action resulting from their different point of view, thinking it will make sense to others as well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve since found a more refined explanation which seems not so different from what I&#8217;ve said above, at least to an untrained person. I&#8217;ll follow up.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/246608.php\">medicalnewstoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nopanic.org.uk\/neurosis-or-psychosis\/\">nopanic.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about psychological terms: the tutor mentions a possible distinction between neurosis and psychosis. Over the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/psychology-neurosis-vs-psychosis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Psychology: neurosis vs psychosis<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38452,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38448\/revisions\/38452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}