Changing Concepts of Disease

Article1 August 1948CHANGING CONCEPTS OF DISEASEKARL MENNINGER, M.D.KARL MENNINGER, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-2-318 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn deciding what I as a psychiatrist might present to this representative body of internists, I considered several possibilities. I could talk about something which I understood fairly well but with which you are less familiar, such as the psychodynamics of schizophrenia. This might impress you with my expertness, but it would also probably puzzle you. Or I could talk about something which you know all about and I very little about, and this would amuse you. I could talk about something which we all know about, and this would bore you. So I concluded to talk about something which... This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Topeka, Kansas*Presented before the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American College of Physicians, San Francisco, April 19, 1948.†Manager, Winter Veterans Administration Hospital; and General Director, Department of Education, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe Concept and Definition of Mental IllnessHomeopathyHomeopathyThe Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for BiomedicineThe Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for BiomedicineLabelling and drug effects in the treatment of neurotic affective disorders: an experimental investigationReferencesThe Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for BiomedicineThe Need for a New Medical Model: A Challenge for BiomedicineThe Doctor-Patient Relationship as a Diagnostic ToolTrauma and NeurosisSymposium 1955: Progress in orthopsychiatry.PROGNOSIS IN SOME PSYCHOSOMATIC DISEASES*HENRY W. BROSIN, M.D., F.A.C.P. 1 August 1948Volume 29, Issue 2Page: 318-325KeywordsSchizophrenia ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1948 PDF downloadLoading ...