... such as acromegaly, carcinoid syndrome and VIPoma significantly advanced from a nonspecific approach to one that specifically and effectively targeted the underlying pathophysiology. Clinical care was transformed from nonspecific symptom control to one of a significant improvement in not only quality of life...

... Abstract Four patients with myasthenia gravis were treated psychotherapeutically: two who suffered from generalized myasthenia gravis were treated without additional medical treatment. During the course of the therapy a clear correspondence of the patients’ behavior and the severity of symptoms...

... Abstract Each time psychosomatic symptoms appear, something has adversedly affected the use the child is making of the object. We emphasize that the focus of investigation in these cases has to be the interaction between mother and infant, rather than infant or mother, exclusively, because...

... Abstract Several developmental points of view are revised in order to stress a basic coincidence in regard to ego formation and object relationships in spite of the evident discrepancies and differing research lines. From the classic Freudian approach in regard to symptom formation the shift...

... Abstract A classifying system is presented for interpreting physical symptoms in childhood disorder under three main headings. The first of these is the somatopsychic sequence in which the basic substrate is an organic lesion giving rise secondarily to intellectual and emotional repercussions...

... Abstract What appears to me as fundamental in the genesis of the psychosomatic symptom is that this genesis is linked to an original psychic structure totally opposed to that of the neuroses. This structure is characterized by a deficiency, more or less marked, of the phantasmic activities...