This book represents a collection of papers published by the staff of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis during the past sixteen years, and is based on the psychoanalytic studies of patients suffering from chronic disturbances of the vegetative organs. With the present emphasis on psychosomatic medicine, a work of this type is especially valuable in correlating the underlying psychogenic disturbance with the somatic manifestation. It further strengthens the opinion that the analytic approach to these problems yields a more fundamental and rational basis than is possible by the ordinary psychotherapeutic measures currently employed. These various studies are classified according to the type of somatic disturbance, and this is of distinct value to anyone interested in a particular symptom or disease. Detailed patient analyses are presented in a readily comprehensive manner. Only occasionally does one find conclusions which do not seem to be wholly justified as determined by the material presented.
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A 1949 study studied this question.