Psychosomatic illness is attracting a body of abstruse and ?rudite literature which is gradually adding a great deal to our knowledge of the relations of mind and body under stress, and in health. But much of it is incomprehensible to the layman and even to the general practitioner, since it presupposes knowledge ^'hich in fact they have not got. Dr. O'Neill sets out to remedy this defect by pr...

ONE of the basic tenets of psychosomatic medicine is that long continued emotional stress can produce widespread somatic changes. Probably'the most insidious form of emotional stress is that which issues from unconscious conflict, since the individual, unaware of the cause of his difficulty, is usually helpless in coping with it. That unconscious conflict can produce psychosomatic illness is co...

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