THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF PSYCHOSOMATIC DISTURBANCES

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Abstract
While physicians in the past have given "lip service" to the emotional status of the patient, little insight has been developed into the results of emotional factors on processes of the body. The patient has often been rebuffed because his complaints were thought to be functional; he has been dismissed as a neurotic and told "go home and quit worrying about yourself." The patient who expresses his emotional difficulty in terms related to disabilities of organs may or may not be satisfied with this diagnosis. He may become the victim of varied treatment, including even multiple operations within the abdomen. Physicians should realize that a majority of ambulatory and even of bedfast patients may have altered functions that result from disturbances of the emotions. The patient who is not conscious of his difficulties presents a bizarre collection of symptoms unrelated to any determinable organic disease. The mechanisms of such syndromes

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