This chapter explores the relevance of the works of Norbert Elias and Erving Goffman for understanding some connections between "mindbodies', society, health and well-being. After brief biographical sketches of Elias and Goffman, Elias' work on the civilising process is discussed along with his "psychosomatics' in which he suggests neuro-hormonal pathways between "mindbodies' and society. The increasingly internalised forms of social control, characteristic of civilised societies, are embodied in the form of what Elias called the "habitus'.