Mind and body

Mind/body in health care is an important matter. John Money (1921 – 2006) coining the term bodymind.

Is emotional health important to physical health? And, if so, what is emotional health? These are important questions to start thinking about if we take the links between body and mind seriously. And if we take the body mind linkage seriously, we will need to define and create the new charter or foundation on which to design an efficacious health care system. (cfr:Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert, PhD)

"...it would be very foolish to suppose that one could ever treat the [part] by itself without treating the whole body...just as one should not attempt to cure the eyes apart from the head, nor the head apart from the body, so one should not attempt to cure the body apart from the soul. And this is the very reason why most diseases are beyond the Greek Doctors, that they do not pay attention to the whole as they ought to do, since if the whole is not in good condition, it is impossible that the part should be." Plato.

See also

• Naturopathy
• Yoga
• Vegetarianism
• Chakras
• Bernarr Macfadden
• Alois P. Swoboda
• Herbert Benson
• Adrian Vander

External links

• Health and Yoga
• The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology
• Everything is Psychosomatic by Merrily Manthey, M.S.
• Women’s Center for Mind-Body Health