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Psychosomatic Medicine 20:117-123 (1958)
© 1958 American Psychosomatic Society

Effect of Psychoanalysis on the Course of Peptic Ulcer

SAMUEL Z. ORGEL M.D.1

1 Visiting Psychiatrist, Hillside Hospital Glen Oaks, N. Y.

This has been a report on the psychoanalytic treatment of 15 peptic ulcer patients.

Five of these patients received inadequate psychoanalytic treatment and were not materially benefited by it.

Ten of these 15 patients pursued their psychoanalytic treatment to its conclusion and have remained well for 10 to 22 years, as determined by follow-up interviews.

While this group is small, being limited actually to 10 cases, I feel I am justified in believing that patients suffering from peptic ulcer and also a neurosis can be cured by the treatment of their neurosis.

The concept of the disease is that, in my cases, the lesion of the upper gastrointestinal tract was one manifestation of an emotional illness involving the total personality.

Submitted on October 1, 1957






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