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Psychosomatic Medicine 31:510-521 (1969)
© 1969 American Psychosomatic Society

Psychosomatic Medicine in the West and in Eastern European Countries

L. CHERTOK MD1

1 Institut de Psychiatrie La Rochefoucauld, Paris

The development of psychosomatic medicine in the West, impelled by Freudian psychoanalysis, was simultaneous with Pavlovian research in the USSR on corticovisceral physiology and pathology. Whether undertaken by the followers of Freud or those of Pavlov, research on the psychosomatic process has so far led to interesting theoretic hypotheses. On both sides it has also demonstrated the importance of emotional factors in illness, giving rise to the psychosomatic movement, and refocused attention on the significance of the doctor-patient relationship, which was in danger of depersonalization through the technological advances in medicine. The recent dialogue between the two trends cannot but be beneficial.

Submitted on May 13, 1969
Revised on July 22, 1969






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