Mind-Body and the Future of Psychiatry
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy
- Vol. 15 (1) , 41-73
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/15.1.41
Abstract
Philosophical perspectives are deeply relevant to psychiatric theorization, investigation, and practice. There is no better instance of this than the perennially vexing mind-body problem. This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model. The profound clinical, scientific, and moral consequences of positions on the mind-body relation are examined. I prescribe a radically biological cure for psychiatry's--and all medicine's--chronic dogmatism and fragmentation.Keywords
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