The Body as Part of the Family

Distilled (~800 words)

Western psychology has a long tradition of treating the body as a container for the mind — a biological substrate upon which psychological events play out. This framing has been remarkably durable and remarkably wrong. The body is not a container. It is a participant. It has its own memory, its own intelligence, its own way of voting in the decisions the person makes. And in most people's interior families, it is the member that has be