The Cartesian split in mental and physical health care

 The separation of mental and physical health care still rests on a Cartesian inheritance, the old assumption that mind and body are fundamentally different kinds of things, one physical and mechanical, the other immaterial and spiritual. That framework may have served a purpose in an era when medicine lacked the tools to explain what it could not measure, allowing physicians to attend to the body while matters of the mind were left to religious and spiritual authorities. But the assumption has outlived the limitations that produced it, and we are still living inside its consequences.

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