In rather labored fashion, Schick concludes that emotional factors and organic disease influence each other. 'A neurosis is a disease entity in itself. A neurotic syndrome, however, represents a symptom complex, a circumscribed psychological element in an organic disease.' Schick recommends psychoanalysis as the therapy for neuroses, but 'minor psychotherapies seem sufficient for the therapy of a neurotic syndrome'. Since he includes under the latter heading such conditions as hypertension and peptic ulcer, one cannot agree with his arbitrary general prescription of 'minor' therapy in such cases. The distinction he draws between neuroses and neurotic syndromes is sufficiently foggy to obscure the problem.