The mind-body problem; three equations and one solution represented by immaterial-material data

Motofei, Ion G.; Rowland, David L.

doi:10.22543/7674.51.p5969

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“…In this sense, the outcome of the dysfunctional defense use, finding an indirect expression for us known in the products as symbolization, functional disturbance and organic lesions. This particular body-mind dynamic, is close to the current topics of the body-mind problem (Motofei and Rowland, 2018) and the necessity to confront classical approaches to current research practices.…”

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Emotional Suppression and Oneiric Expression in Psychosomatic Disorders: Early Manifestations in Emerging Adulthood and Young Patients

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Background The function of emotions, beginning from the proto-emotions, is the adaptation to the environment. This is based on the Homeorhesis , the equilibrium due to the adaptive operation of excitement and the dissipation of emotions. The object relations of the participants foresee the practice of defense mechanisms in a continuum that goes from the consciousness to the oneiric activities. The predominant and maladaptive use of defense mechanisms in the psychosomatic phenomenology, can be identified with deficits in emotional awareness, with the impossibility to manage excitement and dissipation of emotions foreseen by the oneiric phenomena. Methods The observation group is composed by 140 participants, 56 males (43%) and 84 females (57%),with pathological-functional disorders of psychosomatic domain. The study had been conducted with the use of measures related to the conscious defense of suppression (Suppression Mental Questionnaire), to the emotional awareness linked to the psychosomatic phenomena (Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research Structured Interview-DCPR-SI) and to the states of perturbation and conservation of oneiric activities (The Manheim Dream Questionnaire-MADRE). Results Significant inverse correlations emerged among rationalization, repressive function and illness Denial, as for the suppression mental questionnaire factors and irritable mood, but for Regression in the service of the Ego; inverse and significant correlations emerged among suppression, repressive function, rationalization and gastrointestinal psychosomatic outcomes and among suppression, repression and cardiological psychosomatic outcomes. Regarding alexithymia, a positive correlation emerged with rationalization and inverse with Regression in the service of the Ego. Positive correlations emerged between illness denial and overall emotional tone, for disease phobia and meaningfulness and for cardiological psychosomatic outcomes and nightmare distress and recurring nightmares. Conclusion The study of such outcomes due to a prevalent defensive style based on suppression, suggest the identification of a key phenomenon, which translates into maladjustment that goes from functional disorders to parasomnia. The bridge established by the obfuscation of conscious contents until the manifestations of disturbance of ancient activities such as oneiric ones, expresses the need to transform an emotional maladaptive style, in line with classic literature and the current state of art.

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Emotional Suppression and Oneiric Expression in Psychosomatic Disorders: Early Manifestations in Emerging Adulthood and Young Patients

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“…At the same time, many sexual processes are under voluntary (somatic) control, such as defining and seeking out a sexually interesting/desirable partner, engaging in foreplay, recognizing appropriate situational factors, and so on. All such processes-whether biologically or culturally/experientially grounded-are represented and integrated within specific cerebral neural substrates-in the entity we might call the mind-to ensure a well-coordinated and unified sexual response [3,13,17,20].…”

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Cross Cultural Research: Opportunities and Strategies for Discovery

Rowland

Motofei

2020

Trends in Andrology and Sexual Medicine

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Culture is represented by the culmination of social behaviors and norms assumed by human societies and, at least in the past, is often tied to geographic regions or specific populations. Due to increasing internationalization and global mobility, cultural boundaries tied to geographic regions are eroding, and cultures themselves are increasingly sharing more common elements [1]. Culture typically has both material and immaterial expression: Culture is often defined most strongly by principles of social organization, beliefs, and myths of origin (immaterial), but may also be strongly influenced by the local environment, including terrain, resources, climate, and so on, thus being manifested materially in specific forms of music, dance, art, religion, food preparation, style of eating, architecture, house decorations, dress, etc. [2]. Elements of culture, sometimes referred to as memes, are encoded and integrated in our minds in some still unknown manner [3], to be passed from one individual to another (intra or inter-generationally) primarily through imitation and learning. Yet, despite increasing internationalization, even within the same society, social classes and various lifestyles may distinguish one subculture from another.Culture may affect sexuality at different levels, for example, at the societal level, the individual level, and even the anatomical/biological level. At the societal level, some social systems allow one man to marry multiple women, though not vice versa; some accept homosexuality, even as a representation of family, others punish it with death [4]; and some permit pre-marital sex and/or masturbation while others

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Finasteride and androgenic alopecia; from therapeutic options to medical implications

Motofei

Rowland

Tampa

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Journal of Dermatological Treatment

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The mind-body problem; three equations and one solution represented by immaterial-material data

Cited by 8 publications

References 42 publications

Emotional Suppression and Oneiric Expression in Psychosomatic Disorders: Early Manifestations in Emerging Adulthood and Young Patients

Emotional Suppression and Oneiric Expression in Psychosomatic Disorders: Early Manifestations in Emerging Adulthood and Young Patients

Cross Cultural Research: Opportunities and Strategies for Discovery

Finasteride and androgenic alopecia; from therapeutic options to medical implications

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