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Embodied mind and diseases of mind

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1강원대학교

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ABSTRACT

Though we have seen a remarkable growth of medicine in the twentieth century, the so-called diseases of mind are still not took of pertinent cure of doctors. Drug therapies delivered by psychiatrists can cure some diseases of mind like depressive disorder, but we cannot be convinced that patients really recovered their health of mind after their curing. We have to make a new approach and understanding to the disease of mind. The purpose of the paper is to argue that the disease of mind is to be explicated and cured from the point of embodied mind. First, I shall discuss Spinoza's substance monism and the theory of emotion that give an important theoretical foundation for constructing the theory of embodied mind. Then, l examine the problems of the two cognitive theories, symbolism and connectionism, in comparison with the embodied theory. I shall contend that we explain our mind, not in the relation between mind and body, but in terms of the interplay among body, mind, and environment. We have to think of human health as consisting of the health of mind as well as health of body and so define the disease of mind by using a more comprehensive concept of the disease of mind. Last, I shall suggest the necessity of interdisciplinary approach, humanities therapy, to the disease of mind.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.