Word: bodymind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such revelations about an "average" hospital population still do not prove that disease is a direct consequence of depression, notes Dr. Schmale. Disease and depression may be quite separate attempts by the bodymind to adapt to loss and despair. To really nail down a link between object loss and biological vulnerability, it is also necessary to see how some people survive personality blows without getting sick. But theoretically, health depends largely on keeping the ego intact. If it does, then a blueprint analysis of a patient's personality may become as useful in preventive medicine...
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