Stress-induced hypomania in healthy participants : the allostatic “manic-defence hypothesis”.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Collings, Steven John. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hunter, John. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-02T13:45:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-02T13:45:45Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2017 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description | Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 2017. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis analyses the structure, conditions, promises, and results of Large Group Awareness Trainings (LGATs)³, demonstrating that established environmental triggers for hypomania/mania are core features of the LGAT process, and that the majority of (ostensibly healthy) LGAT participants display symptoms that closely resemble hypomania/mania. Through an understanding of the biology of stress (the common element in identified environmental triggers for hypomania/mania), and with reference to the dopamine hypothesis of bipolar disorder, the 1911 manic-defence hypothesis is revisited, and an allostatic⁴, rather than solely psychoanalytic, mechanism by which the structured application of psychological stress leads to hypomania/mania is hypothesised. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/15188 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Hypomania. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Stress-induced hypomania. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Psychology. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Bipolar. | en_US |
| dc.title | Stress-induced hypomania in healthy participants : the allostatic “manic-defence hypothesis”. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |