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Psychosomatic Medicine 3:253-262 (1941)
© 1941 American Psychosomatic Society

Autonomic Symptoms in Psychoneurotics

IRVING BIEBER M.D.1 and SIDNEY TARACHOW M.D.1

1 Neurological Service of Dr. I. S. Wechsler, and the Medical Service of Dr. G. Baehr, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

A psychosomatic concept of behavior is proposed in terms of mastery and failure of mastery. Autonomic symptoms in neurotics are conceived of as parts of the total attitude in which there is either heightening or collapse of efforts at mastery.

Clinical data are presented to illustrate the various excitatory and inhibitory phenomena comprising the abnormal efforts in defective mastery. These phenomena included disturbances of sleep, conjunctival congestion, salivary and menstrual irregularities and disturbances of skin sensibility.






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