creators_name: Valent, Paul editors_name: P., Valent type: bookchapter datestamp: 1999-06-24 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:52 metadata_visibility: show title: A New Synthetic Framework; The Wholist Perspective ispublished: pub subjects: phil-epist subjects: soc-psy full_text_status: public keywords: evolution, emotions, physiological responses, trauma, sociobiology, biopsychosocial, stress, illnesses, strain, fulfillment, happiness, unhappiness, ethics, morals, principles, meanings, wisdom, social responses, appraisals, survival survival strategies, strategies of survival, fight, flight, rescue, attachment, grief, loss, adaptation, competition, struggle, cooperation, love, murder, wickedness abstract: The aim of this paper is to present a new synthetic perspective. The synthesis includes observations from a number of disciplines such as physiology, medicine psychiatry, and traumatology, underpinned by evolutionary biology. The framework, it is suggested, can help to reexamine and clarify important philosophical questions. They include old and new dichotomies such as those of mind-body, scientific-humanist, reductionist-whole, and linear-non-linear. Further, the framework affords perhaps for the first time, a logical basis for, and initial heuristic categorizations of specifically human qualities including emotions, morality, values, meanings and purpose. An innate language may parallel the logical base and categorizations. The perspective has practical clinical applications, but perhaps more importantly, it contributes to an overall view of humans. date: 1998 date_type: published publication: From Survival to Fulfillment; A Framework for the Life-Trauma Dialectic publisher: Brunner/Mazel, Philadelphia pagerange: 1-205 refereed: FALSE citation: Valent, Paul (1998) A New Synthetic Framework; The Wholist Perspective. [Book Chapter] document_url: http://cogprints.org/384/1/Synthetic.htm