Human Development
Metapathology
Description:
Deprivation of metaneed gratification or frustration of metamotivations leads to disturbances, illnesses, pathologies or diminution in full humanness or of the human potential.Such diminutions are termed metapathologies and include: alienation, anomie, anhedonia, loss of zest in life, meaninglessness, inability to enjoy, indifference, boredom, ennui, worthlessness of life, existential vacuum, noogenic neurosis, philosophical crisis, apathy, resignation, fatalism, valuelessness, desacralization of life, spiritual illnesses and crises, axiological depression, death wishes, sense of being useless or unwanted, hopelessness, despair, anguish, cynicism, and aimlessness.