I studied medicine at Oxford Unviersity and Westminster Hospital Medical School in the 1980s. Even then I was interested in how emotional states affect physical health via the immune system. I have expanded that interest since then to include equally how the quality of inter-personal 'social well-being' in families and groups is simultaneously affected by those same emotional states. It seems to me that there is a physical-chemistry cycle, through groups of people and their internal chemistry, which is more fundamental to being a healthy person physically in society than any individual's 'beliefs', ideas about life, and physical fitness in those groups of people.
Having been a pioneering family physician (General Medical Practitioner) for 25 years, I have now left clinical medicine and am full-time involved in research and development of lifelong learning methods that improve emotional literacy among groups of people. My purpose is to build resilience and strong character so that people no longer feel the need to visit their physicians and psychologists for issues that they could manage better by talking constructively with their neighbours and family members.
My contribution to open access Wikipedia is to make widely available quality information that promotes health and well-being as people adjust to difficult change of circumstances in life. In an unstable world, these skills are becoming more widely important to restore the potential order that can emerge out of chaos when the conditions for feedback and learning are favourable.TrevorGriffiths (talk) 11:05, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
