Bodymind (Body Mind) Energetics: Toward a Dynamic Model of Health

by Mark D. Seem

Dr. Seem proposes an integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and psychosomatics in this model of health care that acknowledges the connection of body and mind.

272 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1987

Reviews

[Unruhlee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really interesting book that I read about 15 years ago, and am currently picking back up. The author was a translator (and wrote the introduction for) Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, who subsequently got involved with Chinese medicine. For a time he was the president of the National Council of Acupuncture Schools and Colleges, and he was a founder of the Tri-State Institute of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture.

This book blends phenomenological psychology and chinese medicine perspectives. In the process, he draws from his radical philosophical influences such as Foucault, Nietzsche, and Deleuze and Guattari towards a new paradigm of health that heals the mind-body split.