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Psychosomatic Medicine, Vol 51, Issue 6 597-607, Copyright © 1989 by American Psychosomatic Society
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DR Lipsitt
Harvard Medical School, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238.
An abiding mystery of the mind-body connection is that it should seem mysterious at all--an indication, perhaps, of how deeply conditioned we have been by "dualism." That doctrine, laid down more than three centuries ago by French philosopher Rene Descartes, sees mind and body as distinct entities, to be treated separately. It became the paradigm for medicine, and still dominates medical thinking.
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