The recognition of psychological forces and the psychological approach to the problems of life and disease appears as a relapse into the ignorance of the dark ages in which disease was considered the work of evil spirits and therapy was the expelling of a demon from the diseased body. Therefore modern medicine as a branch of natural science became more intolerant to everything which might have reminded it of its spiritual and mystical past. Modern psychiatry and psychoanalysis, neurology and endocrinology have changed this attitude and have created the concept of 'psychosomatic medicine'. The combined