Elisabeth thus rejects an account of mind that reduces thinking to bodily states, but at the same time she calls into question the idea that the capacity of thinking exists wholly independently of body, that is, that a thinking thing is substance properly speaking.
Not knowing what specifically you will be eating later reduces thinking about food, which is helpful.
However, you could reduce thinking of the opposite sex as an object.
And despite his reputation for sophisticated, witty drawing-room dialogue, Novello was reduced to thinking up one-liners for Johnny Weissmuller, the US swimming champion donning the loincloth for the first time.
At this point, I've been reduced to thinking about Barbie.
The anxiety disorders, major depressive illness, substance use disorder, false beliefs, confused thinking, reduced social engagement, reduced emotional expression, a lack of motivation, and refusing to accept the wearable medical devices have happened in schizophrenia patients.
Work on violent thinking and reducing machismo thinking could be a useful adjunct in anger management with violent offenders [ 63].
Third, there is evidence of reduced concreteness of thinking in depressed patients when thinking about problems (Cribb, Moulds & Carter, 2006; Watkins & Moulds, 2007).
"For Innis, the yellow press of the United States and the Nazi loudspeaker had the same form of negative effect: they reduced men from thinking beings to mere automatons in a chain of command".
As an example of (i), depressive rumination is characterized by an abstract level of identification since it is focused on meanings, consequences, implications, and "why" questions, and involves reduced concreteness of thinking (Watkins & Moulds, 2005a, 2007).
