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Psychosomatic Medicine 20:235-241 (1958)
© 1958 American Psychosomatic Society
1 Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Research in Psychiatry, Temple University Medical School
Differences in medical (including somatic psychiatry) and social science (including psychoanalytic) thinking about etiology, treatment and concept of recovery are described. A medical conceptual model, underlying these differences, is described. The history of this model in folklore, ancient medicine, religion and individual phantasy is briefly traced and an explanation is offered for the tenacious adherence to it as it persists in some modern psychiatric ideas. The fate of this concept in the career of the physician and psychiatrist is described.
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