There is all the reason to believe, however, that the development of a human’s psychological health may interact in complex ways with her development into higher stages. Usually this means that a healthy, not too painful, psychological development supports higher stages of development, but not always. Psychopathologies (mental imbalances or sicknesses) of different kinds can also spur psychological development, either by causing discomfort and thereby making us work harder to challenge our current equilibrium—or simply by removing some psychological property that would otherwise have been an
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