TY  - CHAP
AU  - Sylvia Hong Yao
AU  - Jane Xiao-Wen Ji
AU  - Celia Hoi Yan Chan
AU  - Cecilia
Lai Wan Chan
ED  - Dagmar Breznoščáková
Y1  - 2017-03-29
PY  - 2017
T1  - Body-Mind Connectedness: Integrative Body-Mind-Spirit Group Work for Depressed Persons with Salient Somatic Disturbances
N2  - Depressive disorders can be seen as a disturbance to the balance of mind and body. Because it is a mental disorder and psychiatry is a branch of medicine, the question  how mind and body interact in depression should be treated as a medical rather than metaphysical mind-body problem. The relation between mind and body as it pertains to this illness should be construed in teleological rather than causal terms. Mental states like beliefs and emotions serve an adaptive purpose by constraining the physiologic systems involved in the body's stress response, thus preserving homeostasis and protecting us from various disorders. Depression results when the mind fails its constraining role.
BT  - Depression
SP  - Ch. 6
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/66960
DO  - 10.5772/66960
SN  - 978-953-51-3060-4
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-20
ER  -