THE RÔle OF INSTINCT, EMOTION AND PERSONALITY IN DISORDERS OF THE HEART

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Abstract
In internal medicine, intensive study is devoted to the individual organ or system; it is frequently necessary to pay attention to the way in which the organs are linked together by the central nervous system or by the glands regulating the biochemistry of the body, but no higher integration is attempted. The actual individual is seldom reconstructed for the purposes of the internist; personality is a category that he does not use. So far as the study of personal factors is omitted, the study of the functions of the individual organs is incomplete. Not only does each organ have its definite routine task in relation to the domestic economy; it is also liable at any time to be commandeered for foreign service, when the individual has to react to an external situation of biologic importance. The individual reacts to such a situation in virtue of his innate instinctive equipment, and

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