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From: Robert Maxwell Young <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: 11 November 2001 20:25
Subject: papers on the history of psychosomatic medicine by T. M. Brown


>I am delighted to announce that three papers on the history of
>psychosomatic medicine by the distinguished historian of medicine
>Theodore M. Brown have been placed on the Free Associations web site.
>This site is part of the much larger project of human-nature.com
>which includes a broad range of contents and links:
>http://www,human-nature.com
>
>Theodore M. Brown,  'The Rise and Fall of Psychosomatic Medicine'
>http://human-nature.com/free-associations/riseandfall.html
>
>T. M. Brown is an historian of medicine at the University of
>Rochester in New York State. He here offers an overview of the
>history of psychosomatic medicine in America, inspired by
>psychoanalytic thinking and superceded by reductionist models.
>
>
>Theodore M. Brown,  'The Historical and Conceptual Foundations of
>the Rochester Biopsychosocial Model'
>http://human-nature.com/free-associations/engel2.html
>
>For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, the Medical School of the
>University of Rochester in upstate New York was a very active
>centrein the development of theory and experimental research in
>psychosomatc medicine. T. M. Brown is an historian of medicine at
>that university and has researched the history of the approach
>-embracing biological, psychological and social levels - which
>Was developed there under the leadership of George W. Engel.
>
>
>Theodore M. Brown,  'The Growth of George Engel's Biopsychosocial Model'
>http://human-nature.com/free-associations/engel1.html
>
>George Engel was arguably the most original, empirical  and
>sophisticated researcher in the history of psychosomatic medicine. He
>certainly took the widest view of the subject, embracing the
>biological, psychological and social levels of explanation. Trained
>as an experimentalist, he united this approach with psychoanalysis
>and, most notably, conducted a series of experimental studies on a
>young girl who had a gastric fistula and ulcerative colitis.
>Secretions could thereby be correlated with emotional states. This
>research became the foundation for an approach to all of medicine
>whereby fear of loss was seen, along with other factors, as a
>fundamental cause of the clinical manifestation of disease. The
>historian of medicine Theodore M. Brown here tells the story of his
>career as emblematic of the rise and fall of the psychodynamic
>approach to psychosomatic medicine in America.
>
>Robert Maxwell Young
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>http://www.human-nature.com