Anorexia nervosa, Felix Deutsch, and the associative anamnesis: a psychosomatic kaleidoscope.
An abiding mystery of the mind-body connection is that it should seem mysterious at all--an indication, perhaps, of how deeply conditioned we have been by "dualism." That doctrine, laid down more than three centuries ago by French philosopher Rene Descartes, sees mind and body as distinct entities, to be treated separately. It became the paradigm for medicine, and still dominates medical thinking.
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Harvard Medical School, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238.
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