The relation between the mind and the body in a religious, social, spiritual, behavioral, and metaphysical context. This concept is significant in the field of alternative medicine. It differs from the relationship between physiologic processes and behavior where the emphasis is on the body's physiology ( = PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY).
    

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Dante and Virgil watching Bertrand de Born hold his head away from his body to illustrate the spreading of disunity. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.

The senses and the intellect.

The body has a mind of its own : how body maps in your brain help you do (almost) everything better / Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee.

Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

Well being / by the Well Being production team with the advice and support of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

The physical mechanism of the human mind / by A.C. Douglas.

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The senses and the intellect.

The body has a mind of its own : how body maps in your brain help you do (almost) everything better / Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee.

Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life : being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.

Well being / by the Well Being production team with the advice and support of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

The physical mechanism of the human mind / by A.C. Douglas.