TY - JOUR A1 - Oden, Thomas C. T1 - What Is Mental Health? JF - Journal of Pastoral Care, New York, Vol. 14 (1960), pp. 193-202. N2 - Posting a definition of health from the positive viewpoint of >freedom for< life, investigates the question, What is the implicit norm of mental health which lies hidden under its pathological analytic? Considers the aspects of theory and therapy of Freud's infantile sexuality, Adler's inferiority-superiority strivings, Rank's emphasis upon the will, Horney's present self-understanding, and FROMM's concept of individual freedom, in attempting to establish for reliable psychotherapeutic norms for health. Y1 - 1960 ER -