There are new ideas about mental health. Thus, according to M. Dzhehod, the structure consists of components such as a positive attitude toward myself; optimal development, growth and self-realization, mental integration (authenticity, congruence), personal autonomy, realistic perception of others, the ability to adequately influence others and etc.
The concept of 'mental health of the individual' is widely used in humanistic psychology, in which proposed a new concept of 'positive mental health'. The works of Goldstein, Maslow, Rogers, V. Frankl, etc. It is based on a truly human life. Thus, a prominent representative of this trend Maslow, agreeing with K. Goldstein in his latest works 'Psychology of being' and 'outer reaches of the human psyche' notes that pathological mental health problems - neurosis and psychosis, is the consequence of an erroneous, incorrect personal development. Mentally healthy individuals - it is 'people mature, with a high degree of self-actualization' with real life achievements and to develop their personal abilities.
" In his view, mental health indicators are fullness, richness of personality, its potentialities and the pursuit of human values ??- the presence and development of qualities such as acceptance of others, autonomy, spontaneity, intentionality, altruism, creativity, etc. Similar ideas are developed in 'metapsychology' (D. Andreev), logotherapy (V. Frankl), social logotherapy (S.I. Grigoriev, etc.). They believe that the mental is determined by the peculiarities of balance, harmony, vitality person (in terms of individual and social subjectivity) and identity of living space. 
Such approach leads to other criteria of psychological health. From these positions it provides a possibility of a personal choice and independent progress. To its mechanisms concern: self-knowledge, capacity to decision-making in a direction of the future, readiness for variations and a possibility to allocate alternatives, tendencies, to investigate and make good use of the resources, to bear the responsibility for a made choice, etc. In this regard V. Frankl wrote, that if the person wants to come to itself, its way lays through the world. And these words should affect positive mental health.
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