EVALUATION OF PSYCHOGENIC SYMPTOMS IN GENERAL MEDICINE

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Abstract
The role of the psyche in the production of somatic symptoms is under vigorous discussion in modern medical literature. In its evaluation the physician has relied heavily on his instinct of understanding, which is a nebulous and variable faculty. If this subjective method could be replaced by objective evaluation, diagnosis in this field might be simpler and patients needing psychiatric evaluation might be recognized more accurately. In view of the need for objective evaluation of the emotional factors in the illnesses of patients presenting themselves to the diagnostician, I began using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a psychometric test, as an experimental procedure in private medical practice. This test is a new tool, designed to record neurotic attitudes, which may help to sort out more accurately the patients with nervous symptoms who require psychiatric aid from those who can be managed by the general physician. The object of the present

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