PEP | Article - Introduction to Psychosomatic Medicine: By C. Alberto Seguin, M. D. With a foreword by Flanders Dunbar. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1950. 320 pp.

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Abstract

This book laudably attempts to present the psychosomatic tendency in medicine as a comprehensive point of view, rather than as a special discipline. In view of the widespread distortion of psychoanalytic concepts in current notions of psychosomatic medicine, a popular and authentic introduction of this type could, indeed, serve a salutary purpose. One has but to travel about in this country and its neighbors to appreciate the extent to which conscientious and otherwise informed medical men have naïvely espoused a brand of 'psychosomatic medicine' that translates a patient's conscious