Soul, body and mental health - applying Rabbi Moshe de Maimon's philosophy to the contemporary phenomenon of drug addiction.

IF 0.3 3区哲学 Q4 HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

History of Psychiatry Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-08 DOI:10.1177/0957154X241230271

Yula Milshteyn

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Abstract

In modern psychiatry, drug addiction is considered as mainly a mental disorder and a brain disease problem, of complex aetiology. In addition, drug addiction has been characterized as a loss of willpower or akrasia, and even a sin. In this essay, I analyse Maimonides' (Rambam's) treatises More Ha-Nevuchim (Guide for the Perplexed) and Shemona Perakim (The Eight Chapters). He asserts that the soul is one, but has many different faculties (functions) and is intrinsically linked to the body. I argue that drug addiction is a psychological, social-moral deviance, as well as straying from God's path. Addiction is a disorder of the soul and body. Consequently, healing should include social-moral guidelines as well as physical/bodily health.

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灵魂、身体和心理健康--将拉比摩西-德-迈蒙的哲学应用于当代的吸毒现象。

在现代精神病学中，吸毒成瘾主要被认为是一种病因复杂的精神障碍和脑部疾病问题。此外，吸毒成瘾还被定性为意志力丧失或 "瘾"，甚至是一种罪过。在这篇文章中，我分析了迈蒙尼德（兰巴姆）的论文 More Ha-Nevuchim（《困惑者指南》）和 Shemona Perakim（《八章》）。他断言，灵魂是一个整体，但具有多种不同的能力（功能），并且与身体有着内在联系。我认为，吸毒成瘾是一种心理、社会和道德上的偏差，也是对上帝之道的偏离。毒瘾是灵魂和身体的失调。因此，治疗应包括社会道德准则和身体健康。

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期刊介绍： History of Psychiatry publishes research articles, analysis and information across the entire field of the history of mental illness and the forms of medicine, psychiatry, cultural response and social policy which have evolved to understand and treat it. It covers all periods of history up to the present day, and all nations and cultures.