Mental refers to aspects of, or things related to, the mind; or, in anatomy, the region of the chin, e.g. the mental foramen, can also mean:
- People who act in a way characteristic of mental disorders; this is often used pejoratively
- Mental (TV series), a 2009 television series produced by Fox Telecolombia
- Mental (film), a 2012 film or movie
Other articles related to "mental":
... It is derived from the terms "ideo" (idea, or mental representation) and "motor" (muscular action) ... used in reference to the process whereby a thought or mental image brings about a seemingly "reflexive" or automatic muscular reaction, often of minuscule degree, and potentially outside of the awareness of the subject ... from which this concept derives, an "idea" may include any mental representation, e.g ...
... The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is an international membership organization founded in 1948 to advance, among all peoples and nations, the prevention of mental ... Members include mental health service providers and service users ... network of families of people with serious mental illness, merged with the World Federation ...
... by Wilhelm Wundt, attempts to create methods for assessing and treating mental distress existed long before ... Spiritualism and Phineas Quimby's "mental healing" were also popular ... academic psychologists also were not concerned with serious forms of mental illness ...
... The mental plane, also known as the causal plane is the third lowest plane according to Theosophy ... The mental plane is divided into seven sub-planes ... In the mental world one formulates a thought and it is instantly transmitted to the mind of another without any expression in the form of words ...
... Mental Jewelry is the first album by the band Live, released on December 31, 1991 ... under the name Public Affection, with Mental Jewelry being the first released under the name Live ... Many of the songs on Mental Jewelry are based on the writings of Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti ...
Famous quotes containing the word mental:
“Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that, owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of “unperturbedness” or quietude.”
—Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd cen., A.d.)
“In many ways, life becomes simpler [for young adults]. . . . We are expected to solve only a finite number of problems within a limited range of possible solutions. . . . It’s a mental vacation compared with figuring out who we are, what we believe, what we’re going to do with our talents, how we’re going to solve the social problems of the globe . . .and what the perfect way to raise our children will be.”
—Roger Gould (20th century)
“Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation.... I don’t mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor anything else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)