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Psychosomatic Medicine 7:240-245 (1945)
© 1945 American Psychosomatic Society

Comments from Contributors Relative to the Psychosomatic Concept

The Significance of "The Concept of a Psychosomatic Affection"

JAMES L. HALLIDAY M.D.1

1 Regional Medical Officer, Department of Health for Scotland

The mental construct (or concept) symbolized by the term psychosomatic affection is in no way imposed upon facts but is derived from the arrangement of the facts themselves.

It has proved itself pragmatically justified--it fits and it works--and it has important practical applications, especially in vital statistics, epidemiology and applied social medicine.

Far from being "arbitrary" it has a genuine creative value.




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