Армен Мурадян - Male’s Health in the Objective of Stressology – Beyond the Usual

A serious scientific question can be put to Babel’s words. If he is right, then the male mortality at a relatively young age is the result of the biological characteristics of the male body and its functioning.

Further presentation of the material is a search for the answer.

We searched for the answer proceeding from the following provisions:

1. “Human evolution is an important part of the universal evolution as an open nonlinear system, and the most complex one” (V. E. Klochko, 2017).

2. “A person is such a level of system research, when the not very favorite word “system” can be quite adequately replaced by the more euphonic concept of “integrity” (I. Prigogine, 1986).

3. “A person is an integrative entity” possessing the brain and higher nervous activity (HNA) owing to which an internal notional subjective world is formed, including:

Conscious triunity (biological/psychic/social);

“appropriate” part of information from outside, from the collective unconscious;

the soul of a particular person (“affective/emotional clot”);

will and faith.

4. The psychology of the development of culture and religion led us to the need not to ignore the stages of development of the studied paradigms both in phylo- and ontogenesis.

5. The analytical interdisciplinary system adaptive approach was used.

Analyzing the phenomenon under study or the psychic paradigm, metaphors were often used. “In the era of changing paradigms and great breaks, the science starts to use the language of metaphors. To denote new phenomena, established concepts are insufficient” (T. Kuhn, 1975).

6. Research material:

rich clinical experience of working as urologist/sexopathologist;

rich clinical experience of working as psychiatrist/stressologist;

achievements of science in the field of studied paradigms

A. Muradyan, A. Tadevosyan, 2017

Patient’s drawing [1] With a feeling of deep gratitude we remember our patients. Communication and working with each of them enriched our experience. They left a particle of themselves in drawings that we used in this book. Patients’ names are not indicated here because of compliance with medical ethics.

Where there is the tree of knowledge,

there is always Paradise

And you will know the truth,

And the truth will make you free

The “father” of humanistic psychology Abraham Maslow was engaged not so much in sick people and causes of diseases, as in study of healthy people (who have “realized themselves”), trying to understand where human health comes from. His long-lasting observations resulted in a conclusion that the source of health lies in the person himself. A person is healthy if he uses all his abilities, strengths, and talents (self-actualization). He reveals his feelings to the fullest, outward-oriented on the perception of the surrounding world and inward-directing experiences of external impressions. No human emotions are alien to such a person; he is open to all forms of their expression. These people, according to John Powell , see the beauty of the world, hear its music and poetry, perceive a unique flavor of each day; they know the admiration of any moment of existence. Practically healthy people will not live mindlessly in a strange world. They are well aware of the wise saying of Socrates: “It is not worth living without thinking” and we will add “and acting”. They are able to correctly question the life and flexible enough to let it raise questions and tasks before them. To live life to the full means to have developed imagination and sense of humor, retain spontaneity and liveliness of emotions and sensitively listen to the voice of nature, which in its constant development subjects human to it too. Care and love – this is the main content of the relationship of these people to everything and everyone. And when they encounter the shady side of the life they understand its objectivity and try to perceive its reason; and to perceive means to forgive. Forgiveness for them is restoration of internal harmony which is actually the basement the health rests on. Healthy people truly love and truly respect themselves and respecting themselves they respect others. Every tomorrow – is a new opportunity, which is eagerly awaited. Life and death find meaning for them. And when the hour of death, their hearts are full of gratitude for what has been, for “The Way They Were,” for the whole life experience.

In medicine it is accepted to speak about individual approach to a patient but behind this concept there is no content that a beginner doctor could learn. Individual has evolved from specimen (biological being) to individual and then to the upper stage of evolution – personality. Carl Rogers was the first who disclosed the difference between the concepts “personality” and “person” – individual. The concept “individual” refers to a carrier of physiological peculiarities of Homo sapiens as a rational being endowed with consciousness and will in whom psychic and biological constitute a single unit and individual actualization – for myself – prevails. For the purposes of medicine, we shall accept the following definition of “personality”: personality is a human who climbed the top step of evolution and has become a social person. His actualization already lies mainly in the sphere of society, in his relationships with other people at all levels of his activity. As the core of the personality appear relations between people in any social medium, for the benefit of which he consciously positively thinks and acts. Individual as an object of doctor’s professional activity is the product of several complex variables, each being complex by itself. These variables are:

• biological component – the body;

• mental component – human psyche;

• social component – the environment.

Each component changes depending on the temporal factor and external effects retaining at that its specific features, its basic function, its mechanisms for realization of existing capabilities and its range of improvement and development.

Example: consider the human organism, his body. It has relatively rigid boundaries and limits of variation. But if we recall bodybuilding, abilities developed by the person practicing yoga, it becomes clear that it is within a person’s power to change also his body despite its biological boundaries. Each variable has a tendency to change and to develop as it is built in the informational combination of bio-psycho-social reflection of the reality.

Human has acquired a huge resource of variability and evolution at the expense of consciousness and will. To date there is no uniform concept of human. We will adhere to a concept that treats human as a developing conscious volitional trinity in both phylo-and ontogenesis. Actualization as a psychological phenomenon manifests itself in realization of possibilities and capabilities ensuring personal growth, self-perfection and self-respect that comprise the main purpose of life for a male. Actualization in contrast to the tendency towards equilibrium (homeostasis) is often due not to a decrease but to an increase in strain. Being optimally actualized, such a person lives a full and bright life every new moment of it. He personally chooses his way of life, as a source of information uses his perceptions, feelings and thoughts rather than other people’s advice. Having made his choice, he is responsible for the consequences of the choice and never blames others but himself. Such people make up the fully functioning human formation that “adjusts life of humanity on the earth”. It is mainly male formation at the age of 35–60.