Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

An HMO-based prospective pilot study of energy medicine for chronic headaches: whole-person outcomes point to the need for new instrumentation.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate an energy healing treatment for possible inclusion as a Kaiser Permanente Northwest (KPNW) Pain Clinic provided therapy, and to identify the appropriate number of treatment sessions for a Pain ... Read more...

Swinging into thought: directed movement guides insight in problem solving.

30 Jul 2009 Can directed actions unconsciously influence higher order cognitive processing? We investigated how movement interventions affected participants' ability to solve a classic insight problem. The participants attempted to solve Maier's two-string ... Read more...

The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal.

21 Jul 2009 This essay explores the possibility of an alternative hypothesis to the prevailing psychoanalytic instinctual drive theory whose theoretical and clinical validity has been variously critiqued and challenged. Arguments are suggested in support of the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medically unexplained symptoms--blurring the line between "mental" and "physical" in somatoform disorders. 30 Aug 2009
• An HMO-based prospective pilot study of energy medicine for chronic headaches: whole-person outcomes point to the need for new instrumentation. 30 Jul 2009
• Swinging into thought: directed movement guides insight in problem solving. 30 Jul 2009
• Agave, Salome and the Enchanted Heads: mind and body dialectics in Euripides' and Oscar Wilde's work. 30 Jul 2009
• The question of drive vs. motive in psychoanalysis: a modest proposal. 21 Jul 2009
• Emotional freedom technique (1). 29 Jun 2009
• Energy therapies. Tapping the life force to promote well-being. 29 Jun 2009
• A new mind-body approach for a total healing of fibromyalgia: a case report. 29 Jun 2009
• Participant experiences of a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group for cardiac rehabilitation. 29 Jun 2009
• [Interaction of somatopsychic and psychosomatic factors: the psyche also requires care] 29 Jun 2009
• Applying neuroscience to architecture. 23 Jun 2009
• [Somatic complaints of depressed patients: diversity of depressive complaints] 30 May 2009
• Mirror neurons and mind: commentary on vivona. 30 May 2009
• Leap carefully from brain to mind--but it can be done: commentary on Vivona. 30 May 2009
• Leaping from brain to mind: a critique of mirror neuron explanations of countertransference. 30 May 2009
• Philosophical and ethical issues at the forefront of neuroscience and genetics: an overview for psychiatrists. 30 May 2009
• The 'body-container': a new perspective on the 'body-ego'. 30 May 2009
• Two-way street between depression and heart disease. Lifting depression can help the heart; exercise is essential. 30 May 2009
• Relaxed bodies, emancipated minds, and dominant calm. 26 May 2009
• Mindfulness helps ease heart failure. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)'

Definition: The relation between the mind and the body in a religious, social, spiritual, behavioral, and metaphysical context. This concept is significant in the field of alternative medicine. It differs from the relationship between physiologic processes and behavior where the emphasis is on the body's physiology ( = PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY).

Descriptor UI: D019222

Alternative terms: Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics); Mind Body Relations (Metaphysics); Mind-Body Relation (Metaphysics); Relation, Mind-Body (Metaphysics); Relations, Mind-Body (Metaphysics); Mind-Body Relationship (Non-Physiology); Mind Body Relationship (Non Physiology); Mind-Body Relationships (Non-Physiology); Relationship, Mind-Body (Non-Physiology); Relationships, Mind-Body (Non-Physiology); Mind-Body Relations (Non-Physiology); Mind Body Relations (Non Physiology); Mind-Body Relation (Non-Physiology); Relation, Mind-Body (Non-Physiology); Relations, Mind-Body (Non-Physiology);

Related Mesh Headings: Psychophysiology;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: E02.190.525.750; F02.463.509;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: important in alternative med; do not confuse with MIND-BODY RELATIONS (PHYSIOLOGY) see PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY where emphasis is on physiol; DF: MIND BODY RELAT METAPHYSICS