Explaining the unexplained? Overcoming the distortions of a dualist understanding of medically unexplained illness

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-221

  Deary, Vincent ^a  

^a ASTLEY AINSLIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bentham; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Cognitive behavioural therapy; Descartes; Fiction; Kant; Medically unexplained illness; Ontology; philosophy dualism

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EVOLUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MEDICALLY UNEXPLAINED ILLNESS; MODEL; ONTOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW;

EID: 22144438329     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638230500136605     Document Type: Review

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