The Mind-Body Health Relationship

The Inter-Relationship of Mind and Body

Mind, Body, and the Public Health

Emotional disorder is the public health problem of the day. Over half of our hospital beds are occupied by mental patients, and five out of every one hundred adults will spend some part of their lives in a mental hospital.2 There are more chronic alcoholics than acute cases of tuberculosis.3 Forward-looking and progressive leaders of the public health profession, with eyes sharply focused on th...

The Relationship between Mind-Body Dualism and Personal Values

Dualists view the mind and the body as two fundamental different “things”, equally real and independent of each other. Cartesian thought, or substance dualism, maintains that the mind and body are two different substances, the non-physical and the physical, and a causal relationship is assumed to exist between them. Physicalism, on the other hand, is the idea that everything that exists is eith...

Editorial: Brain-Mind-Body Practice and Health

1 Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2 Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 3 Sport Psychology Center, Hong Kong Sports Institute, Hong Kong, China, Department of Psychological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, Center for Advanced ...

Neuropsychiatry: grasping the body-mind and mind-body problems.

I f the brain is the most complicated material object in the known universe, the mind is its most wondrous product (1). Precisely how the brain generates mental events is an unsolved mystery. The field of neuropsychiatry concerns itself with psychopathology caused by structural brain disease, brain electrical malfunction, and extrinsic toxic metabolic disturbances. As such, neuropsychiatry is i...