Ana Gómez-carrillo

Agency, embodiment and enactment in psychosomatic theory and practice.

Medical Humanities June 1, 2019 Laurence J. Kirmayer, Ana Gómez-carrillo 104 citations

In this paper, we examine some of the conceptual, pragmatic and moral dilemmas intrinsic to psychosomatic explanation in medicine, psychiatry and psychology. Psychosomatic explanation invokes a social grey zone in which ambiguities and conflicts about agency, causality and moral responsibility abound. This conflict reflects the deep-seated dualism in Western ontology and concepts of personhood...