Abstract
THE recognition of the importance of emotional stress in the genesis of certain disorders has been a fruitful concept so far as it has promoted the treatment of the patient as a whole. But if it is uncritically applied it may stifle the scientific investigation of disease mechanisms either as the result of attributing etiologic responsibility to the emotional accompaniment of any serious disorder or as the result of assuming that clinical entities of unknown etiology must be psychogenic in origin. The psychiatrically oriented physician is usually involved in a restricted type of practice, which furnishes no representative sample for . . .
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