If homeostasis (self-regulation & dynamic equilibrium) and the eventual breakdown of homeostasis are universal characteristics of life, what makes us think that our psychological regulatory processes & equilibria are immune from analogous breakdown and instability? (1/3)
Breakdown of psychological "homeostasis" (self-regulatory dynamic equilibrium) will invariably involve or influence features characteristic of the psychological realm - agency, intentionality, meaning, embodiedness, embeddedness, enactivity, normativity, relationality... (2/3)
Even if we choose (& it is a choice) to restrict our concepts of health & disease to the biological realm, we should not be foolish enough to think that just bcz we have deprived ourselves of the means of reference & representation, the referent would also cease to exist. (3/3)
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