Mind over matter?

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"Mental health problems bring substantial individual, community and societal costs

and the need for innovation

to promote good mental health

and to prevent and treat

mental health problems

has never been greater."

 

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Physiologically,

we intend to indicate by

[the illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body] 

the design of,

by a considerable collection

of striking cases,

the often admitted,

but too frequently forgotten,

and still more frequently neglected,

truth,

that the state of the mind,

compromising therein

intellect, Emotion, and Volition, exerts an enormous influence,

for good or evil,

upon the body with which it is associated

- including in this term all sensations, movements, and the organic functions."