PEP | Article - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. XII, 1976: Psychosomatic Concepts in the Works of Shakespeare. C. E. McMahon. Pp. 275-282.

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Abstract

Quotations from Shakespeare demonstrate medical theories of his era such as the cardiovascular involvement in emotion, experiential origins of psychosomatic illnesses, and the role of repression as pathogenic. A plea is made to return to the premodern holistic approach of organismic functioning which is a better base for the consideration of mind-body relationships.

PEP | Article - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. XII, 1976: Psychosomatic Concepts in the Works of Shakespeare. C. E. McMahon. Pp. 275-282. - The Psychoanalytic Quarterly