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Article: From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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Psychosomatic illnesses encompass ailments in which physical symptoms are the result of the unconscious mind, although the ailments are defined by their sufferers, as well as their physicians, as organic illness requiring medical explanation and intervention. This is a complex topic centering on the dynamics of the doctor-patient relationship within cultural contexts that legitimate changing styles of psychosomatic complaints. A history of psychosomatic illnesses must weave together aspects of social and medical history with the histories of psychology and psychiatry. In From Paralysis To Fatigue, Edward Shorter has accomplished just that. The book is comprehensive in ...
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