Monthly Archives: August 2022
What’s Unconscious?
What’s Unconscious? In recent columns, I’ve written about the mysterious effects of mind on body and their unpredictable intertwinings. One reader has left Comments on these columns, twice urging me to read John E. Sarno’s book, The Divided Mind: … Continue reading
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Tagged "the past isn't past", Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Philosophic Foundations of Feminism", amoral id, analysand, anger internalized, appetitive spirited and rational, Aristotle's psychology, cure for neuropathy, cynicism, dangerous emotions, ego repressing the id, failure of chivalry, female powerlessness, Freud's Dora: An Analysis of A Case of Hysteria, Freudian explanations, gaslighting mechanism, gaucherie, higher psychic levels, iatrogenic, id ego and superego, John Sarno's The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders, mainstream medical practice, man to woman disrepect, mind/body connection, moral lobotomy, prudent repression, psychogenic, psychological repression, psychosomatic, reductive explanation, seeing and seeing through, self-mistrust, somatic distractions from unacceptable feelings, somatic refusal, spiritual lobotomy, Sublimation, suffering somatized, the Freudian years, the gap in modern medicine, the symptom imperative, transcending negative experience, tripartite psyche, unconscious rage, undiscovered treatments for psychogenic illnesses, unwelcome advances, vulgarity, women misdiagnosed as hysterical
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My Mind Is Not My Brain
My Mind Is Not My Brain How much hangs on that denial – or on its contradictory, that my mind is my brain! If our minds are our brains, as I once thought, and as our educated contemporaries mostly still … Continue reading
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