Over the last decades, theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of the affective
sciences have proliferated rather than converged due to differing assumptions about what …

Introduction There are increasing recommendations to use the biopsychosocial model
(BPSM) as a guide for musculoskeletal research and practice. However, there is a wide …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

Psychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship
between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders …

In psychiatry, mental dysfunction is typically framed in relation to models that seek to be
continuous with physiology or evolutionary biology and that compare individual fitness to a …

Several authors have made claims about the compatibility between the Free Energy
Principle (FEP) and theories of autopoiesis and enaction. Many see these theories as …

Embodied approaches to cognition hold that the body is crucial for cognition. Yet despite
many decades of research, 1 what this “embodiment thesis” 2 (Wilson and Foglia, 2011) …

Nearly all psychiatric diseases involve alterations in subjective, lived experience. The
scientific study of the biological basis of mental illness has generally focused on objective …

Summary Emotion, Sense, Experience calls on historians of emotions and the senses to
come together in serious and sustained dialogue. The Element outlines the deep if largely …

From an embodied and enactive point of view, the mind–body problem has been
reformulated as the relation between the lived or subject body on the one hand and the …