And there are other times when «I» does not mean the psyche alone but rather the entire
psychosomatic organism.
From the process perspective,
the psychosomatic organism is a very complex entity.
It is located in the soul, not as a special substance which merely inhabits a body, but as the locus of the distinctively personal experience of the whole
psychosomatic organism.
Or is one the whole
psychosomatic organism?
Consider the person first as the complete
psychosomatic organism from birth to death.
This we may readily concede, and many neurologists, psychologists, biochemists etc., would willingly agree; but no understanding of man can be any longer satisfactory, which is content to ignore what these sciences have taught us about the nature of man as
a psychosomatic organism.
It is, thus, a unification of the whole
psychosomatic organism from its cellular perspective.
We are
psychosomatic organisms, not souls who happen to reside temporarily in bodies.
Not exact matches
But in the modern world several sciences have converged to press home to us the rational conclusion that each individual man is a
psychosomatic unity, a living physical
organism whose various organs, both physical and psychical, can only function as part of the total
organism.
emotional, behavioral, relational, or
psychosomatic problems as maladaptive responses to the family
organism's stress.