Roberts M
Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Media and Design, Staffordshire University, Staffordshire, UK.
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs. 2007 May;14(3):277-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01074.x.
Western civilization has, over its relatively recent past, undergone dramatic, unparalleled changes. The historical period in which these changes have occurred is commonly referred to as 'modernity', and although modernity has had profound repercussions on all aspects of people's lives, what has received less attention in the nursing literature is how modernity has influenced, and continues to influence, the mental health of modern men and women. In an attempt to address this, the following paper, drawing on the work of Szasz, Nietzsche and Frankl, seeks to present an accessible introduction to one of the most salient features of modernity; namely, the erosion of those traditions that gave life a meaning or a purpose, and that provided people with ready answers to the problem of how they ought to live. The paper will then introduce some of the possible consequences of this on the mental health of modern men and women, as well as providing preliminary suggestions as to how mental health nursing might respond. In doing so, the paper also seeks to stimulate further discussion and research into how modernity has influenced, and continues to influence, the mental health of modern men and women, and how psychiatric and mental health nursing might respond.
在相对较近的历史时期，西方文明经历了巨大的、前所未有的变化。这些变化发生的历史时期通常被称为“现代性”，尽管现代性对人们生活的各个方面都产生了深远影响，但在护理文献中较少受到关注的是现代性如何影响并持续影响着现代男性和女性的心理健康。为了解决这个问题，下面这篇论文借鉴了萨斯、尼采和弗兰克的著作，试图对现代性最显著的特征之一进行通俗易懂的介绍；也就是说，那些赋予生命意义或目的、并为人们提供如何生活这一问题现成答案的传统正在受到侵蚀。然后，本文将介绍这对现代男性和女性心理健康可能产生的一些后果，并就心理健康护理可能如何应对提供初步建议。在此过程中，本文还旨在激发关于现代性如何影响并持续影响现代男性和女性心理健康以及精神科和心理健康护理可能如何应对的进一步讨论和研究。
