Psychosomatic Specificity: Experimental Study and Results.

摘要: This account of a study, which was begun 15 years ago and involved at least 25 investigators, is an important contribution; it does much to strengthen belief in specificity psychosomatic disease. "Specificity" this context means, broadly, that there are predictable relationships between physical diseases psychological characteristics. The work stimulated by hypotheses developed the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, notably French Alexander. These have beeen very influential, but previously had not been tested carefully. Interviews with 83 patients form basis report. Each one following diseases: asthma, neurodermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, essential hypertension, ulcerative colitis, duodenal ulcer or thyrotoxicosis. disease represented five each sex. were tape-recorded, edited remove conventional medical clues, judged panel from nine psychoanalysts. Using personality characteristics make diagnoses,