Descartes on the body-mind split
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چکیده
This article focuses on Descartes’s vision how the dimensions of organism connect with each other. Re-reading Descartes is proposed as an antidote against endemic cultural dualism, in a world which medical institutions, still describe human beings using dualistic terms such ‘psychosomatic’, ‘body psychotherapy’, or ‘body-mind’ systems. It also introduces early scientific researcher who developed interactionist and organismic approach embodiment. paper framed by my interest development ‘organismic psychology’, assumes that physiological, behavioural, psychological routines are embedded heterogeneous cogwheels being. I have observed particularly useful psychosomatic patients, most forms body psychotherapy.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1743-2987', '1743-2979']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2020.1864777