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Psychosomatic Medicine 5:205-210 (1943)
© 1943 American Psychosomatic Society

Fundamental Concepts of Psychosomatic Research

Psychogenesis, Conversion, Specificity

FRANZ ALEXANDER 1

1 Chicago

An attempt is made to clarify the concept of psychogenesis.

The fundamental psychological and physiological differences between conversion symptoms, vegetative neuroses and psychogenic organic disease are elaborated.

The problem of specificity of emotional factors in different vegetative neuroses is discussed. Evidence for the specificity of emotional factors is offered.

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Paper presented at the Conference on Psychiatry, held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 22-24, 1942, under the auspices of the University of Michigan and the McGregor Fund.




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