Throughout history, and across many different cultures, the human being has been considered to consist of a mind with body (and sometimes a soul). Despite this, across much of modern medicine there has been a tendency to conceive of these aspects as distinctly separate entities, whether in disease generation or in its management.
The problem of such an approach is that it engenders a sort of Cartesian confusion.
In this way, healthcare providers may become oblivious to the idea, which seems so obvious to those who have not been blinded by excessive reductionism, that both of these facets can interact to manifest clinical conditions. This should not be a surprise since the findings of modern-day neuroscience have revealed an intimate link between the mind and the brain, and therefore the nervous system and the rest of the body – the scientific basis of the mind-body connection.
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