Therese Benedek, a pioneer in psychosomatic research, personally selected the twenty-one papers included in this volume; all but the last five, which are concerned with psychoanalytic training, demonstrate her lifelong concern with the interrelationships between mind and body. She was committed to the study of psychosomatic problems from the very beginning of her career. Her first published paper, omitted from the present volume, is a report of a case of erythrophobia.

Introductions precede each paper in the volume and give an interesting perspective on the paper in question and on Dr. Benedek's