Psychological factors in organic diseases--case notes etc

Influence of emotions on functions of organs--influence of psychical disturbance on the body. Psycho-somatic illness (mind and body in disease). Influence of physical agents and bodily disturbances in the mind. Influence of physical constitution on neuroses and psychoses. (For comparison) Visceral disorders excited by artificial lesions of eye, hypothalamus or other parts of brain. 'Mental allergy' and 'mental hypersensitivity' (after Pulany's 'Allergic Man'). Neurosis-like troubles and changes in personality after cerebrospinal [???]. Question of 'mechanical man' etc and 'mechanical brain'. The whole subject of leucotomy and analogous neurosurgery.

Material in the file is dated 1920 and 1930-1949.

1920-1949

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