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Following a period of lively psychoanalytic interest in psychosomatic illnesses, a phase of skepticism has taken over. Beginning about 1960, a group of French authors (David, Fain, Marty, and de M'Uzan) has postulated a specific personality structure for the psychosomatically ill without consideration of the problem of etiology. Cremerius asserts that this "psychosomatic structure" is not syndrome-specific and that it is not "primary." On the basis of his own experience, illustrated