Has a realist bias. Rewrite from more NPOV. Daniel C. Boyer
"A person who suffers from psychosis is said to be "out of contact with reality" in which "reality" means the generally accepted cultural consensus." What is this if not blatant reality enforcement? I don't argue that something like this sentence belongs in the article but the attitude critical of it should be acknowledged too.--Daniel C. Boyer (Particularly troubling is the effect the notion of "out of contact with reality" has when something like this phrase is included in a mental hygiene statute, which means (at least in theory) that the statute can be brought to bear against idealists, surrealists, irrealists, Hindus, &c. --Daniel C. Boyer
Find this questionable....
- A person who suffers from Psychosis is said to be "out of contact with reality" in which "reality" means the generally accepted cultural consensus. Often they may also be out of contact with reality in a more ultimate sense in that the assumptions they act on are false and their actions will not produce the anticipated effect, for example, trying to start a fire with a piece of ice.
I'm not sure that "being out of contact with reality" is a psychological diagnosis or for that matter an accurate description of psychosis.
- I would tend to agree; the part on psychosis should be included under my request for a rewrite as well. --Daniel C. Boyer
(As of June 7, 2002)
- This is better. --Daniel C. Boyer
Mention of theory of reality enforcement should be somewhere in this page. See reality enforcement at requested articles. --Daniel C. Boyer
"The reality of the small community of surrealist artists is an example of an esoteric reality": despite my asking in general what is the basis for this I also object to its false assumption that surrealism is an artistic movment (i.e. surrealist artists share an esoteric reality, so does that mean that surrealists who are not artists do not share this reality?). --Daniel C. Boyer