Studies of patients with psychosomatic disease show first, that large quantities of superfluous or misdirected emotional energy are acting through the body or a body system, disturbing normal physiological activity; or second, a body organ is symbolizing an emotional problem with such intensity as to impair normal physiological function. The 'hater' can be delinquent, hypertensive, migrainous or suffering from gastrointestinal disturbance. The longing to be taken care of is seen in the depressives, the alcoholics, the addicts, the neurasthenics and hysterics. The symptoms cry for many patients who fear to cry or otherwise reveal emotion. The practicing physician needs to be acquainted with these misdirected energies and to understand how childhood training and education failed to channelize the forces properly, how childhood needs for love were never met, childhood hate and fear never neutralized.

It is most important to acquire, early in life, certain personality characteristics. One