Book contents
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Need for a Model
- 2 Currently Available Models in Psychiatry
- 3 Introduction to Enactivism
- 4 Body and Mind – and World
- 5 The Existential Dimension and Its Role in Psychiatry
- 6 Enriched Enactivism
- 7 Enactive Psychiatry
- 8 An Enactive Approach to Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
- References
- Index
4 - Body and Mind – and World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2020
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Enactive Psychiatry
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Need for a Model
- 2 Currently Available Models in Psychiatry
- 3 Introduction to Enactivism
- 4 Body and Mind – and World
- 5 The Existential Dimension and Its Role in Psychiatry
- 6 Enriched Enactivism
- 7 Enactive Psychiatry
- 8 An Enactive Approach to Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
- References
- Index
Summary
A big part of the integration problem is the difficulty of relating the physiological and the experiential dimension of psychiatric disorders: body and mind. Within psychiatry the question of how body and mind relate is not just an abstract, philosophical question but first and foremost a practical one. Are patients’ altered experiences symptoms of underlying physiological disturbances? Or are psychiatric disorders rather psychological problems with physiological consequences?
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- Enactive Psychiatry , pp. 70 - 123Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020