While enjoying the Aida Edemariam review of the current nervous and psychological research (Revolution of the mind/body: How the division between “mental” and “physical” disease fails all of us, January 26)I do not agree with its assertion that “the conceptual division between the mind and the body has supported Western culture and medicine for several centuries. Diseases” physical “, or that it is” mental. “
Samuel Taylor Colorridge formulated the term “physical psychological” in the late eighteenth century to describe the conditions of the body of the body, while the term “imaginary medicine” was used for the first time in the same period, noting that there is a link between imagination and physical symptoms. A few years later, in 1800, doctor John Higrath published a wide -scale reading booklet as a cause and treatment of body disorders.
Franz Anton Mismer (a friend of Hydeen and Mozart) may “deal” badly from the alleged hysteria (a term created by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC to describe a psychological state that was noticed in women, and it is believed that it is caused by a “endless uterus”) with a mixture of relaxation caused by music Which increases the suggestion of hypnotic and doubtful use of the magnet that passed on the body. This focuses on what will be known as “exciting areas of coming”.
Mesmer’s work with “Animal Magnetic” was credible, but nevertheless affected the neurologist Jean-Martin Charmott, who-in the late nineteenth century-dealt with the so-called hysterians at Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris by inciting sperm and proposal.
During the winter of 1885-1886, Sigmund Freud attended the theatrical demonstrations of Charcot for psychotherapy for patients, as his idea was formed on the deep relationship between the body and the mind-as an exhibition related to repression-. Depending on the work of Susanna Jones on the pretext that, compared to men, women are evaded from history, and we may notice historically that “physical psychological” in medicine is largely gender as “women’s issues”. Or the rest is “Hystery”.
Alan Blackley
Fakhri Professor in Medical Humanities, Faculty of Medicine in Pleimouth
Aida Idamaram article is great. I was waiting for it for years. I can say I am talking about Mons throughout my career. We treated the damage that Descartes dealt with largely, even in the phrases we use, not only when we talk about the disease. As a consultant psychiatrist, I used to draw attention to duplication in the tours of the wing and meetings. “It is physical,”, colleagues say to exclude a situation of our interest, which I will refrain from: “Everything is material.” I also noticed that many patients with anxiety and disorder mania, as well as functional disorders, appear to be depicting their condition in the most bilateral way. They used to say: “I am not, Doctor – it’s my mind.” I confirm that the word “mind” must be treated as an act, not as a name. It is an activity by the brain at the highest level of performance.
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This article was a good written summary of an understanding that I used to penetrate my style as part of the recovery from Coveyd long. Many others do this due to circumstances such as Fibromyalgia (which the article mentions) and I (or CFS – chronic fatigue syndrome).
It is difficult to clarify the role of the mind in the disease in a way that resonates with most people and is not interpreted as rejecting or saying: “Everything is in the head.” The article does a really good job in this, so it is a shame that diseases including me and Long Covid have not even been mentioned. For example, more people suffer from long long today, more than most of the conditions mentioned in the article. While this knowledge helps many, it can help many people if it understands it on the scale. Those who search online using “Me” or “Long Covid” will be absent from this excellent press, and perhaps, the understanding that can help them recover. This is the real shame.
Jolly Black
Lawrencecick, Aberinachire
