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Psychosomatic Medicine 30:202-208 (1968)
© 1968 American Psychosomatic Society

Further Consideration of Psychosomatic Predisposing Factors in Allergy

JEANNE BLOCK PH.D.1

1 Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

The recent study by Jacobs et al.5 of somatic and psychologic predispositions to allergic disorders was reviewed. The logic of their analytical procedures was questioned, and a reanalysis of their data was presented. This analysis failed to confirm their "psychosomatic hypothesis" which requires, according to their formulation, the concurrence of both somatic and psychologic factors in allergic patients and the absence of both these predisposing factors in nonallergic subjects. Data were presented to support the reinterpretation of the Jacobs et al. findings.

Submitted on June 30, 1967






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