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Psychosomatic Medicine 1:203-244 (1939)
© 1939 American Psychosomatic Society
Fifty cases of bronchial asthma were taken from the allergy clinic without selection and were studied psychiatrically by means of one or two interviews.
Thirty-seven of the 50 cases seemed to have an emotional component in their asthmatic attacks.
The thirteen "non-emotional" patients were predominantly young males.
Twenty patients reported that the first attack was emotionally precipitated.
Thirty-one reported that later attacks were often emotionally precipitated.
Thirty patients showed neurotic traits (other than asthmatic) usually of a compulsive character.
Only 20 per cent of the "emotional group" were benefited by somatic therapy, while 54 per cent of the "non-emotional group" were benefited. Likewise in the "neurotic group" only about 20 per cent were helped by drugs and biological products, while 50 per cent of the "non-neurotic group" were helped.
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From the Psychiatric Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Neuropathology of the Harvard Medical School.
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