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This paper, presented before the American Society for Research in Psychosomatic Problems in 1946, reviews the manifold emotional factors observed in afflictions of the skin. There is no reference to the extensive literature on the subject. In all three cases the lesions appeared in relation to acute emotional conflict in neurotic personalities. The main contribution of this paper is found in its extensive clinical case reports.