Interview with Dr. Mohammad Reza Sargolzaei, correspondent of Hamshahri weekly, Six and Seven
Dr Sargolzaei, In recent years, you have shifted from personal psychology to social psychology or the social aspects of mental health. While stating the reasons for this tendency, please explain whether it is possible to consider a community psychologically independent and separate from the individual psychology?
As a psychiatrist, when I sit in my office and look at the people who come to me for treatment, I find that there are three categories of problems among patients:
The first problems are “biological”, meaning that just as the heart has a problem, so the brain does as well.
Some of these diseases are in the “sensorimotor” domain that neurologists must treat, and others require surgery that neurosurgeons must perform.
Some of these other problems are related to “brain biochemistry” that do not manifest themselves in the field of sensorimotor, but have a specific emotional and intellectual manifestation, such as someone called methamphetamine (drugs), He consumes, his brain biochemistry changes and he becomes pessimistic about those around him. Such a person’s thinking and emotions have changed, so his problem is related to the field of psychiatry, but since this change has a biochemical aspect, this patient must take medication to recover.
The second group of people who refer to me, are those who have not learned or have poorly learned the life skills needed in interpersonal relationships. For example, in families, the individual is taught a manner of social etiquette that is considered rude at the community level.
Such a person gradually becomes isolated and lonely when he enters the community. It is the job of the “psychiatrist” or “psychologist” to correct this pattern of behaviour in the individual.
The third category is issues and problems that manifest themselves as epidemics in each period and time. For this reason, the people who come, although they are from families with different patterns, but there are commonalities and aspects between all of them, which can be called “collective psychology”.
The collective psychiatrist was first described as “collective unconscious” by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung and later by the Romanian psychiatrist Jacob Moreno as the “co-unconscious”.
Some mentally or unconsciously equate the collective with culture. This means, for example, that if pessimism spreads in the literature of a society, then you will see that everyone in that society has some degree of pessimism.
The collective unconscious has different levels. It can be the collective unconscious of a city, tribe or nation, and sometimes it can be the collective unconscious of humanity. This means that the collective unconscious of humanity becomes sick at a particular time.
For example, some famous psychiatrists, such as Dr. Viktor Frankl, Dr. Eric Fromm, and Dr. Shinoda Bolen, believe that our collective psychology (humanity) has contracted a disease in the industrial age, and that it is an exaggeration in the spirit of “masculinity.” .
This has made modern man too ambitious, competitive, selfish and violent. Therefore, when faced with such injuries and global phenomena, we can not be content with just treating the person who comes to us in the office. This does not solve the problem. It is like the air pollution in Tehran is very severe and we want to offer an air purifier for a special family. No matter how much the family uses the device indoors, they still breathe polluted air when they go outside. This is where we see the problem of some people who go to psychiatric clinics or clinics is a collective problem.
Dr. Mohammad Reza Sargolzaei – Psychiatrist
Translated By: Negar Kolkar
Photo From: basicpsychology.net
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