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Comment to

“Our body code. Daniel Eytan
Living in Haifa,
Deciphering the Israel. Married to
Lorena and hap-
meaning of body py father of Ha-

and somatomorphic leli, Elishay and
Liel. M.A Clini-
manifestations from an cal Psychology,
UBA (University
integrative perspective“ of Buenos Aires).
Working at Rambam Healthcare Campus,

by Daniel Eytan (Israel) and Acco municipality. Languages: Hebrew,
English, Spain and Italian. Member of The
Israel Psychological Association.
I want to comment on what Miguel Ángel Al-
carria writes about „ The Interrelationships bet-
ween Mind and Body“, I will try to explain the
meaning of body and somatomorphic manife-
stations from an integrative perspective, and I‘ll The premise of the science of psychology is that
try to explain my point of view as believer in there is a lawfulness in human behavior, and
Jesus, and clinical and educational psychologist, that it must document and measure this law.
from a Israeli-Jewish background: Psychology says that behavior does not occur
Miguel Angel article start with: „Christianity by accident, but rather is the result of a system
gives great value to the human body. The rea- of laws, the understanding which laws allows
son for this great value lies in the fact that the us to derive a certain prediction about the fu-
body, biblically, has a close link with the image ture. Every field of psychology deals with other
of God…and we agree with that. Because the aspects of behavior, and tries to understand it
creation of man, „the crown of creation,“ is the through a different focus. Psychology is divided
culmination and end of the six days of the story into branches of research, fields of practice and
of the creation of the biblical world. In the origi- schools.
nal Hebrew, we can read from Genesis 2:7 : The philosopher Plato advocated mental thera-
וַיִּיצֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים אֶת-הָאָדָם, עָפָר py of „mental patients“ who have a conflict bet-
מִן-הָאֲדָמָה, וַיִּפַּח בְּאַפָּיו, נִשְׁמַת ween the different parts of the psyche through
חַיִּים; וַיְהִי הָאָדָם, לְנֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה a philosophical discourse called Platonic Dia-
Then the LORD God formed man of the dust logue.
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the The Greek philosopher Aristotle was the first to
breath of life; and man became a living soul devote a book to the study of the human psyche.
The Interrelationships between Mind and Body René Descartes laid important foundations for
Miguel Angel continues with a brief historical modern psychology. Many see the beginnings
description about psychology and its changes, of psychology already in the period of ancient
I intend to remember something that we also Greece in the thought of Socrates, Plato, Aristot-
learned from Greek and Jewish sources, long le and Hippocrates when they raise questions
before Freud appeared, and as also from ancient such as the essence of human soul, conscious-
times, how body and soul were related. ness and ways of behavior. Hippocrates begins
Psychology is a field of social science that deals his book by having three persons: natural, vi-
with the study of the mind, perception and be- tal, and intellectual. In Plato (427 / 8-347 BC),
havior, and its purpose is to investigate and to the soul as an entity occupies a central place;
deal with (using different psychological techni- for him the soul is divided into three compon-
ques) human and animal behaviors.
ents: rational, emotional, and instinctual, with
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