That’s about the extent to which there is scientific evidence backing the “mind-body” stuff.
But in the 40s mixed with american eugencisim
and facist countercurrents in the US was where the american physochosomatic movement thirved, and the goal of that was explicitly to show every illness can be controlled by the mind.
You can see effects throughout. Look in the 80s and you will have a bunch of research saying cognitive behavioural therapy is effective for breast cancer. HIV was blamed on psychosomatics (or hysteria) before a cause was found, same with Lupus, Peptic Ulcer, ME/CFS.
Still these days you have minority countercultures in medicine claiming this stuff works for MS, IBD etc (with little evidence).
That’s about the extent to which there is scientific evidence backing the “mind-body” stuff.
But in the 40s mixed with american eugencisim and facist countercurrents in the US was where the american physochosomatic movement thirved, and the goal of that was explicitly to show every illness can be controlled by the mind.
You can see effects throughout. Look in the 80s and you will have a bunch of research saying cognitive behavioural therapy is effective for breast cancer. HIV was blamed on psychosomatics (or hysteria) before a cause was found, same with Lupus, Peptic Ulcer, ME/CFS.
Still these days you have minority countercultures in medicine claiming this stuff works for MS, IBD etc (with little evidence).