The field of psychosomatic medicine has undergone considerable change in definition and direction in the past two decades, and these changes have been reflected in both medicine and psychiatry.

Four books presenting a cross section of contemporary approaches to psychosomatic medicine have been reviewed. All are cogent, well documented, and approach the field in the same general manner; all welcome a new multifactorial, expanding interdisciplinary science which includes all of medicine and psychiatry. Psychoanalysis is afforded little more than a historical role in the newly defined discipline.