It would please me greatly if we could get away from this idea of mental health and the mind-body problem. That problem is man-made and devastating. I blame Rene Descartes and religion. People want to believe that cognition is soul and not flesh which is considered filthy. Awful.
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You just helped me make a mental leap... I've written a few articles about the poor state of mental health care in this nation. You said: "People want to believe that cognition is soul and not flesh..." How did I not grasp that nuance before? It's the keystone.
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Replying to @MyndexResearch
I really want to get away from the term mental health and that might be something you could write about because mental health is a misnomer and a stigma. It's also very good for big pharmaceutical companies. Integrated medicine tries to solve the split but has mostly failed.

Apr 4, 2022 · 8:14 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Yes, this is a big problem, and a civil rights problem, hence my interest. The term "Integrated medicine" lacks intuitive plain-language meaning. Creating a new universal term needs a focus group... But the "soul" thing you mentioned is a road block I hadn't fully considered.
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The idea of having a soul is religious in origin. The mind is theoretical. We have to eliminate those ideas from the clinical and research settings because we don't know yet what the thought and Consciousness are. We need to repair the split. We need whole body medicine.
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