Psychopathology, Memory Editing, Talk Therapy: Philosophy of Medicine on the Body–Mind Frontier
Histories January 19, 2026 Moreno Paulon
Medical history of psychopathology is, to some extent, the history of the overlapping traditions of Cartesian-Platonic dualism and physical reductionism looking for a taxonomic middle ground by means of diagnostic constructs. Building on such liminality, Freud first showed that traumatic memories could well be made of pure fantasy, a mind-only construct of experience, and still act...