TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dagmar Breznoščáková
AB  - Depressive disorders can be seen as a disturbance to the balance of mind and body. Because it is a mental disorder and psychiatry is a branch of medicine, the question how mind and body interact in depression should be treated as a medical rather than metaphysical mind-body problem. The relation between mind and body as it pertains to this illness should be construed in teleological rather than causal terms. Mental states like beliefs and emotions serve an adaptive purpose by constraining the physiologic systems involved in the body's stress response, thus preserving homeostasis and protecting us from various disorders. Depression results when the mind fails its constraining role.
DO  - 10.5772/63698
ID  - OAPEN ID: 36719
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Neuropsychiatry
KW  - Mental and Behavioural Disorders and Diseases of the Nervous System
KW  - Health Sciences
L1  - https://www.intechopen.com/books/depression
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44756
PB  - IntechOpen
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9789535130598
SN  - 9789535130604
TI  - Depressionnull
ER  - 
