Abstract

THE term psychosomatic in its present-day usage serves commonly to designate a group of diseases with organic changes in which emotion is thought to play an important etiologic role. It is unfortunate, however, that there is a tendency to think of this approach as constituting still another specialty within the body of medicine. It would be far healthier if a broader concept could be adopted in which the attempt to study and describe both the physical and emotional aspects of illness could be viewed as a step toward the unification of all medical knowledge as it pertains to disease in . . .

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