PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE: The term 'psychosomatic medicine' is gaining currency. In the last two or three decades a number of new terms have appeared in the medical literature more or less as strangers in transit. Among the most long-lived of these are 'psychophysiology', 'psychosomatic problems', 'the organismal theory', 'psychobiology', and 'ergasiology'. These terms have a common origin in attempts to avoid the artificial separation of mind from body, a difficult matter in view of the fact that methods of approach to these two aspects of the organism's functioning differ so fundamentally both in assumptions and techniques. A new journal, Psychosomatic Medicine: Experimental and Clinical Studies, which has as its aim the integration of relevant contributions now scattered throughout the medical literature, and the provision of a forum for those especially interested in psychosomatic research, is to appear in January 1939. This journal is to be published quarterly, each