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Psychosomatic Medicine 27:1-8 (1965)
© 1965 American Psychosomatic Society

Semantic Problems in Evaluating a Specificity Hypothesis in Psychophysiologic Relations

WILLIAM S. KOGAN Ph.D.1, THEODORE L. DORPAT M.D.1, and THOMAS H. HOLMES M.D.1

1 Veterans Administration Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash

Grace and Graham's formulation of the correlation of "attitude" and "symptom" is briefly stated. Reference is made to the methodologic weakness in objectification and quantification on the psychologic side of the formulation. In a study of the discreteness of the attitudes, naïve judges behaved in such a way as to suggest that the attitudes are not discrete--rather, they fall into families or clusters. The relation between the clusters or families of attitudes and the frustration-aggression hypothesis is noted. The findings of the study are discussed in relation to general implications of specificity in a number of well-known psychosomatic theories.

Submitted on April 8, 1964






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