While enjoying Aida Edemariam’s analysis of current neuro-psychological research (The Mind/Body Revolution: How we failed all the diseases between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ and the body supported western culture, and the Drugs for centuries.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge combined the word “psychosomatic” in the late 18th -century to describe the bodymind conditions, while the word “placebo” was first used at the same time, referring to a link between imagination and physical symptoms. A few years later, in 1800, physician John Haygarth published the broadly read the pamphlet of the imagination as a cause and a cure for the body’s ailments.
Franz Anton Mesmer (a friend of Haydn and Mozart) is pointless to be “treated”) by a combination of relaxing music-induced by the hypnotic suggestion and a questionable use of magnets passed on to the body.
Mesmer’s work with “animal magnetism” was discredited, but nevertheless influenced neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot,-in the late 19th century-treated so-called hysterics at Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris in Paris in by induction of hypnotic trance and suggestion.
During the winter of 1885-86, Sigmund Freud attended the theater demonstration of charcot of psychosomatic treatment of women’s patients, where his idea of a deep relationship between body and mind-as a symptom linked to subjugation-formed. Drawing on Suzannah Jones’ work that, which, in comparison to men, women have been on history from history, we can note that the history of “psychosomatic” in medicine is largely gendered as “issues to women ”. Or the rest is “Hystery”.
Alan Bleakley
Emeritus Professor of Medical Humanities, Plymouth Peninsula School of Medicine
Aida Edemariam’s article is wonderful. I’ve been waiting for a few years. I can say I’m talking about monism in all my careers. The harm that Descartes faced with us reached far, even in the phrase we use, not just when we talk about the disease. As a consultant psychiatrist, I used to draw attention to dualism in ward rounds and meetings. “It’s physically,” the colleagues would say to exclude a condition from our interest, which I would review: “Everything is physical.” I have also noticed that many patients with anxiety and pain attraction, as well as functional disorders, seem to be conceptualizing their condition in the most dualistic way. They will say: “Not me, doctor – my mind.” I keep that the word “mind” should be treated as a verb, not as a noun. It is an activity conducted by the brain at the highest level of functioning.
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This article is a well-written summary of an understanding that I used to hack my wiring as part of recovery from Long Covid. Many others do this for conditions such as fibromyalgia (cited by the article) and I (or CFS – chronic fatigue syndrome).
The role of thinking in pain is difficult to explain in a way that reflects most people and does not interpret it as a denial or as it says: “It’s all in the head.” The article is doing a great job about it, and so it is a shame that the diseases with me and the Long Covid are also not mentioned. It is far away that people are suffering from Long Covid today, for example, than most of the conditions mentioned in the article. If this knowledge helps many, it will help many people if the same medical medical Practical and society in general. Those who seek online using “ME” or “Long Covid” will miss this piece of other good journalism and, potential, the understanding that will help them recover. That’s the real shame.
Julie Black
Laurencirk, Aberdeenshire
