Chères et chers collègues,
J’ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication de mon nouveau livre aux
éditions Springer:
*Mind-Body Entanglement*
*Theory and Therapies*
*Résumé*:
This book suggests a radical departure in approaching the mind-body
problem. Instead of trying to causally relate subjective experience to the
functioning of the body, it begins with the notion of the psychosomatic
unity of the individual and looks for its conditions of possibility. This
text shows that what makes this unity possible is the generalized
entanglement relation that connects a person's subjective experience with
its body functioning in a specific way.
In addition to providing a significant contribution to the long-standing
philosophical debate about the nature of the mind-body connection, this
change of perspective based on the concept of generalized entanglement
allows for exploring a holistic approach to health. It can for example
explain the existence of body memory and leads to a better understanding of
the genesis and evolution of internal diseases, allowing for the
development of mind-body therapies. This volume also provides new insights
into mental disorders and sets the theoretical basis of self-healing
methods appealing to students, researchers and professionals in the fields.
*Sommaire*:
Introduction
Chapter 1. Mind-body connection and causation
1.1. About psychophysical correlations
1.2. Which concept of “causation” are we referring to?
1.3. Dualism and causal efficacy
• Dualism of substances: elusive psychophysical “interactions”
• Non-reductive physicalism: logical inconsistency of psychophysical
causation
1.4. The hopeless attempts to build a concept of mental causation
• Woodward’s interventionist account of causation and mental causation
• The counterfactual account of causation and mental causation
1.5. Reductionist Physicalism
Chapter 2. Exploring neutral monism philosophy
2.1. Spinoza’s psychophysical parallelism
2.2. Neutral monism and individual experience
2.3. Jung and Pauli: Unus Mundus and archetypes
2.4. Quantum-like Neutral Monism
• Bohm and Hiley: the implicate order theory
• Atmanspacher and Primas: symmetry breaking and co-emergence of the
psychic and physical aspects of the psychophysical unity
• Time entanglement of mind and matter?
Chapter 3. Mind-body entanglement
3.1. The psychosomatic unity of the individual
3.2. Mind-Body interdependence: the case of emotions
3.3. Specificity (or meaningfulness) of the psychophysical correlations
3.4. Mind-body entanglement and psychosomatic unity
• Which systemic approach for dealing with the mind-body
interdependence?
• Mind-body entanglement, condition of possibility of the
psychosomatic unity
Chapter 4. A quantum-like representation of the psychosomatic unity
4.1. Quantum-like representation of psychosomatic states
4.2. Complementarity in quantum physics and beyond
4.3. Quantum-like representation of mind-body entanglement
4.4. An experimental test of mind-body entanglement
Chapter 5. Mind-body entanglement and healing
5.1. From biomedicine to the holistic mind-body approach to illness
5.2. Body memory, internal diseases and complementary medicines
5.3. Self-healing technics: placebo “effect”, biofeedback and mental
imagery, meditation
5.4. Psychiatric disorders
5.5. Distant healing
Conclusion
Appendix 1: About the mathematical formalism of quantum theory
Appendix 2: Complementarity of anger and disgust
Appendix 3: Complementarity of systolic pressure and stroke volume
Appendix 4: Joint measurement of emotional and cardiovascular observables
Appendix 5: A quantum-like model of bipolar disorder
*Pour en savoir plus*:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90173-8#toc
Pierre Uzan
Chercheur associé au laboratoire CHArt, Cognition Humaine et Artificielle,
P8, EPHE, UPEC
Professeur de Sciences Physiques à la Fondation Santé des Etudiants de
France
Chargé d’enseignement en Philosophie des Sciences à l’Institut Catholique
de Paris
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