THEORY OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE.

The article focuses on psychological state which is the momentary condition of Being occurring at any longitudinal cross-section of the stream of life of a person. A psychological state consists not only of the phenomenal "givens" of a temporally limited behavior sample but also of the underlying factors organizing such a pattern of integration. In psychiatric usage, the term "psychological state" also refers to temporal cross-sections of behavior, usually continuously changing, and reflecting the momentary composition of behavior existing at that time. In contrast with the concepts of disease or disorder, the "state" concept usually implied something less than disorder or disease which is normally reversible and to some degree normally reactive to current problems.