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Maladjustment

individuals rather than the diseased, Vaillant concludes that "the quality of a whole journey is seldom changed by a single turning", rather what is most likely to produce a happy and healthy life is "the continued interaction between our choice of adaptive mechanisms and our sustained relationships with other people" (Valliant, 1977, p. 368).

Psychosis is to be understood as a major mental disorder in which the personality is very seriously disorganized and contact with reality is usually impaired. Psychoses can be subdivided into two major subdivisions. Functional psychosis is characterized by a lack of an apparent organic cause. It most often manifests itself in schizophrenic or manic-depressive types. In contrast, organic psychosis is seen as derived from pathological organic conditions such as disease, brain damage and metabolic disorders. Although even this subdivision can be challenged by recent findings which suggest schizophrenia may be a mental disorder with genetic roots.

Although the American Psychiatric Association re

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