Just wrote this email off to the University Library and thought i would share it
as it explains quite well my thoughts of late with regard to my thesis. If
anyone has any articles that u think i might find interesting and that tie in
with this, i would be ever so grateful if u could forward to me ;))))))


Hi (((((((((((((((((((((((Everyone - Glendy, Vicky and Kim)))))))),



Thank u sooooooooooooooooooo very much for all those books u sent.

I have since come up with a very original concept, which I believe can be given
empirically

evidence as backup, but not necessarily absolute proof. After reading/studying
the book by Williamson, i began to read everything i could get my hands on with
regard to the medical model for mental illness and magnetic imaging results of
patient's suffering from mental illness, including post-mortem results.



To cut a long story short, i am going to argue in agreement with Laing and Szasz
that mental illness is not an illness as such, at least not originally.
Scientific tests and observations have shown that a withdrawn temperament (lack
of motivation, lack of attention, poor self image and expression etc)
predisposes one to mental illness, these said to be the visible signs before the
onset of mental illness, namely schizophrenia. These are character traits, not
symptoms as such. There are many things that can bring on depression or so
called mental illness including, genealogical inherent patterns of behaviour,
trauma, alcohol, drugs etc, but what they all have in common is an inability to
cope with their existential experience of being-in-the-world, where I am now
suggesting that a conscious or unconscious death wish associated with flight or
flight increases or decreases the influx of dopamine in the brain, which in turn
kills off grey matter - one's negative emotional thoughts produces the chemical
which then kills off the brain, where the progressive death of grey matter
causes the physical reaction of radical hallucinations and delusions, well above
and beyond those hallucinations and delusions experienced from time to time by
very so called "normal" people. The other side of this is that I have an article
by a Professor Kunes at Harvard University that suggests that psychotherapy
and/or positive thinking/feeling can restructure the brain.



Now I am questioning whether this re-structuring is re-wiring of the brain as in
the white stringy matter in the brain or regenerating grey matter?



When a patient with a trauma brain injury or stroke relearns, does this
relearning restructure the brain?



I would be extremely grateful if u could do a search with regard to the above
questions and send me some articles/books.



Also I would be extremely grateful if u could send me some articles/books on the
conscious and/or unconscious death wish. I know I touched on this issue with
both Buddhism and Deleuze.



Thank u soooooooooooo much once again



Kind Regards

Elaine










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