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The Influence You Have

Hidden Brain Podcast

This week, we revisit a favorite episode about a phenomenon known as "egocentric bias," and look at how this bias can lead us astray.

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The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential.

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Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch, Jon Kabat-Zinn (preface)
2025
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An Old Idea: What Ails the Body is Rooted in the Mind

The diagnosis and the treatment fit the era in which they occurred. It was the early 1950's, and the field of psychosomatic medicine — based on the notion that many diseases have their origins in emotional distress — was in its heyday.

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Barron H. Lerner
2006
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19:49

Is Psychosomatic Medicine Real?

A short lecture from the Psychosomatics Student Group Riga by Kamiar-K. Rückert. Talking about the History of the Mind and Body in medicine as well as the Physiology (Stress-Fear Axis, Epigenetics and Psychoimmunology).

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Franz Alexander
2016
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What is Psychosomatic?

The term ‘psychosomatic’ means mind and body related. A psychosomatic disorder is a physical disease which is caused, or worsened, by mental factors. The term is also used when mental factors cause physical symptoms but where there is no physical disease.

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Franz Alexander
2019
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Theories of Psychosomatic Disorders

A short lecture from the Psychosomatics Student Group Riga by Kamiar-K. Rückert. Talking about the different psychodynamic theories of Psychosomatic Medicine.

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Sigmund Freud
2017
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Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness

For thousands of years, yoga has offered what Western therapists seek to provide today: a way to achieve the total health of body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

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Swami Rama, Swami Ajaya, Rudolph Ballentine
1976
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