The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long-Term Therapies by Gérard Reach

Author:Gérard Reach
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Are these remarks pertinent if the process takes place in the same mind, as Davidson suggests? If this were the case, it would lead not to a performance of an incontinent action , but simply to compulsive behavior , and we would be back to the starting point in our analysis of incontinent actions. But it is precisely because the process takes place in the same mind that the argument of a “manipulation at a distance, of a hypnosis”, falls through. It is in my mind that the two reasons to act coexist; the two domains of the mind, according to Davidson, are not separated but rather overlap; they are, theoretically, both accessible to my consciousness, and I could examine their contents if I activated my principle of continence . And while I “do not do the good that I desire to practice, but I do the evil that I do not want to do” as in Saint Paul ’s famous statement (Saint Paul, Romans), I may come to regret it once it is done, and even before doing it, I may know that I will later regret it. As Watson says,when one acts weakly, one wants to some degree to do what one judges best. Weakness of will is marked by conflict and regret (Watson 1977, 327).

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