Mind-Body Entanglement: Theory and Therapies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030901721)

Introduction

Chapter 1. Mind-body connection and causation1.1. About psychophysical correlations 1.2. Which concept of "causation" are we referring to?1.3. Dualism and causal efficacy- Dualism of substances: elusive psychophysical "interactions"- Non-reductive physicalism: logical inconsistency of psychophysical causation1.4. The hopeless attempts to build a concept of mental causation- Woodward's interventionist account of causation and mental causation- The counterfactual account of causation and mental causation1.5. Reductionist Physicalism
Chapter 2. Exploring neutral monism philosophy 2.1. Spinoza's psychophysical parallelism 2.2. Neutral monism and individual experience2.3. Jung and Pauli: Unus Mundus and archetypes2.4. Quantum-like Neutral Monism- Bohm and Hiley: the implicate order theory- Atmanspacher and Primas: symmetry breaking and co-emergence of the psychic and physical aspects of the psychophysical unity- Time entanglement of mind and matter?
Chapter 3. Mind-body entanglement3.1. The psychosomatic unity of the individual3.2. Mind-Body interdependence: the case of emotions3.3. Specificity (or meaningfulness) of the psychophysical correlations3.4. Mind-body entanglement and psychosomatic unity- Which systemic approach for dealing with the mind-body interdependence? - Mind-body entanglement, condition of possibility of the psychosomatic unity
Chapter 4. A quantum-like representation of the psychosomatic unity4.1. Quantum-like representation of psychosomatic states4.2. Complementarity in quantum physics and beyond4.3. Quantum-like representation of mind-body entanglement4.4. An experimental test of mind-body entanglement
Chapter 5. Mind-body entanglement and healing5.1. From biomedicine to the holistic mind-body approach to illness5.2. Body memory, internal diseases and complementary medicines5.3. Self-healing technics: placebo "effect", biofeedback and mental imagery, meditation5.4. Psychiatric disorders5.5. Distant healing
Conclusion
Appendix 1: About the mathematical formalism of quantum theoryAppendix 2: Complementarity of anger and disgustAppendix 3: Complementarity of systolic pressure and stroke volumeAppendix 4: Joint measurement of emotional and cardiovascular observablesAppendix 5: A quantum-like model of bipolar disorder


Author: Pierre Uzan
ISBN-10: 3030901726
ISBN-13: 9783030901721
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2021
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d