Gestalttheorie und „Psychosomatik “ - Gestalt Theory and “Psychosomatics ”
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CONF. LOCATION:
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Graz Austria
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CONFERENCE YEAR:
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2005
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PUB TYPE:
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Conference Presentation
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SUBJECT(S):
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psychosomatics, epistemology, mind-body problem, Gestalt theory, Gestalt psychology, isomorphism, Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy
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DISCIPLINE:
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Psychology
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http://gestalttheory.net/conv/
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LANGUAGE:
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German
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PUB ID:
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103-413-357
(Last edited on
2005/03/04 04:56:00 US/Mountain)
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ABSTRACT:
Wolfgang Köhler’s monistic solution to the “body-soul-problem”– known as the “isomorphism-hypothesis” – is characterized,and possible misunderstandings of this hypothesis are discussed. In particular, Köhler has used the term “isomorphic” in two different ways: first as a term to describe the fact that there are circumstances within the world – not generally so, but in special cases – where the physical world is structurally the same as the phenomenal (psychic) world of human beings; secondly, Köhler has postulated that there exists a special “psychophysical isomorphism” within the human brain that connects physiological and phenomenal processes to each other. This really is a “monistic” hypothesis, different from running “dualistic” and so-called “parallelistic” hypotheses, insofar as there is postulated a “psychophysical niveau” within which the brain-activities and the phenomenal world are only two structurally identical sides of the same thing. A widespread misunderstanding seems to be that Köhler had postulated a general isomorphistic connection between every physical event and its phenomenal outcome. This, however, is not the case.
Köhler’s hypothesis remains clearly within the epistemological model of “critical realism ” which gives evidence that, although the phenomenal world is part of the all-embracing physical world, it only provides a more or less correct copy of what is physically given.
According to Köhler’s isomorphism hypothesis, there are no psychophysical processes other than those between certain (not each and every) brain processes and phenomenal processes.
This point is critical for understanding the Gestalt theoretical and critical-realistic relationship to so-called “psychosomatic medicine”. It is important for this view of medicine to enhance the understanding of the “language” which is used between the transphenomenal physical world and the phenomenal world of human beings.
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