That which builds mental health, then, builds Goodness.
It seems obvious to me that the lessons being learned, the knowledge being gained, by psychologists is entirely disconnected from academic politics. Even though most psychologists tend to be Sybaritic Leftists, one would think they would have more to say about our public discourse, other than blaming conservatives.
It does occur to me though that if we posit unrecognized and unprocessed trauma as the root of emotional and mental dysfunction, and further recollect that trauma science remains in its infancy, we might safely assume that most psychologists are as fucked up as everyone, and positioned to indulge in the delusion that leftist rhetoric can be squared without violence to the truth with their actions.
I read Openness is one indicator of mental health. Can it be called such if it leads to delusion? The very concept of mental health is nurtured within a set of cultural assumptions; no Humanities student of the past forty years has not had this pounded in their head.
So I need my own definition. Turns out I already have it. How convenient and inevitable.