The influence of the mind on the body / Paul Dubois ; translation by L. B. Gallatin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubois, Paul, 1848-1918, author.

Gallatin, L. B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Psychophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 pages)

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Other Title:

influence of the mind on the body

Place of Publication:

New York : Funk & Wagnalls Co, 1908.

Summary:

"Whatever may be the opinions which one professes in the matter of philosophy, whether one is a spiritualist or a scientific materialist, each one recognizes the reciprocal influence which the spirit and the body, the moral and the physical, exert upon each other. To say that the physical has an influence over the moral is to affirm that the state of our body can modify our ideas, our sentiments, the condition of our soul. Inversely, if we admit the influence of the mind over the body that is declaring that the mental representations which we make, the feelings which animate us, can influence the body and modify the functions of its organs. My object is, before all, to show the influence of the mind over the body, but to understand it better, it is necessary to examine the matter inversely and analyze fully the influence of the physical over the mental"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

Notes:

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