Descartes on the healthy human body: critical analysis of various research

Abstract

The article reviews Rene Descarte's mind-body dualism theory, which is also relevant in modern life. This philosopher's theory became the basis for the branch of psychiatry to separate from other branches of medical science and become an independent branch of science that treats mental illnesses. The fact that when the mind is diseased, the body is also diseased, and although two different substances have different properties, it shows that mind and body are nevertheless more connected than we can imagine. The purpose of the article is to analyze Rene Descartes' theory of dualism to provide insights that would help specialists treating mental illnesses to understand that the body, although separated from the mind, reports signs and signals of mental illness, and on the contrary, if the body is in a stressful state, it can signal the reincarnation of stress on a higher emotional level, in the mind. Nevertheless, the theory has been developed to this day, it solves the current issues of treatment and methods of psychiatric diseases, which were proposed even in the time of Descartes (conversation, drugs).