Journal of Psychiatry

Socialisation as a process involving provision of psychosocial need and including consequences of privation

28^th International Conference on Psychiatry & Psychology Health

May 06-07, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Valerie Saunders

Windsor Girls’ School, UK

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

There is an acute need for a paradigm change in psychiatry due to multiple failings within the discipline coupled with a conservatism that is generated by its traditional attachment to medicine. This paper is an attempt to provide such a change and cause progress towards a more modern appraisal of issues surrounding abnormality and mental health that locates such issues decisively in the social and behavioural sciences. Here a hypothesis is being expounded that contends that all forms of deviance or abnormality are caused by environment through inadequate and inappropriate socialization, in physiologically normal humans. It is being suggested that there are three irreducible rules or principles in socialization that are common to all human groups. These three describe process and lead to the provision of all human psychosocial needs. A figure containing 28 such needs will be presented and links need with process. These needs have been derived from analysis of studies across three social sciences, and collecting data through interviews as well as personal experiences. It is further suggested that abnormal behaviour including psychoses, violence, addictions, anxiety states and autism, among other, are due to inadequate and or inappropriate socialization that does not ensure adequate and appropriate provision of essential psychosocial needs and within critical biological thresholds or timeframes. Various forms of privation amount to child abuse.

Biography :

Valerie Saunders has completed her MLitt in Sociology from the Oxford University, in 1988 having graduated from the University of Western Australia with first class Honours. Since then, she taught Sociology at Oxford University for three years, has worked in several research positions, but has mostly taught Sociology and Psychology at university entrance level in various secondary schools in London. Her students receive outstanding exam results. While teaching, she has continued to do private research in the area of socialization and psychosocial need leading to discoveries of causes of various mental health matters including autism and schizophrenia, which have yet to be published.

E-mail: mdw1886@yahoo.co.uk