TY - JOUR T1 - Opposites Detract JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 499 LP - 499 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X687109 VL - 66 IS - 651 AU - Roger Jones Y1 - 2016/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/651/499.abstract N2 - Relationships between mind and body have bothered philosophers, and more recently neurophysiologists, since the days of Plato and Descartes. John Eccles and Karl Popper completed The Self and Its Brain1 published in 1977, after strolling around the gardens of Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, on the shores of Lake Como, arguing for interactionism and the idea of the ghost in the machine. Dualism rears its head repeatedly in medicine, and tensions between the health and health care of the mind and of the body run through many of the articles in this month’s BJGP.Starting at the beginning, the mental health of children and young people is a huge cause for concern. Childline has reported a recent doubling of calls from children with suicidal thoughts.2 The editorial … ER -