Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French by Dr Höfer Bernadette

By Dr Höfer Bernadette

Bernadette Höfer's cutting edge and impressive monograph argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence at the primacy of analytic concept over physically functionality, has unusually little buy in texts via well-liked classical writers. during this research Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine symbolize interconnections of physique and brain that effect behaviour, either voluntary and involuntary, and that therefore disprove the classical idea of the brain as targeted from and enhanced to the physique. The author's interdisciplinary point of view makes use of early sleek clinical and philosophical treatises, in addition to modern scientific compilations within the disciplines of psychosomatic medication, neurobiology, and psychoanalysis, to illustrate that those seventeenth-century French writers proven a view of human life that absolutely anticipates present proposal concerning psychosomatic illness.

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