..., pathological or even harmful. The chapter then identifies two factors that contributed to a gradual shift in emotional regimes around cancer: the emerging concept of “informed consent” and the rise of psychosomatic medicine which changed the therapeutic encounter drastically. Finally 1960s cancer treatment...

.... ⁵³ And, indeed, these pharmaceutical treatments did lead to new discoveries about the biological basis of migraine. But these discoveries came along around the same time that psychosomatic medicine was taking off as a medical specialty. As a result, new theories about the biological basis...

... blame the prominence of psychosomatic medicine in the “bad old days” to account for what they see as the problems of “legitimacy” that continue to dog their field. Headache medicine, they claim—like the disorder it treats—has never been taken seriously despite being a serious business. Its long-running...

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... of illness. Psychosomatic medicine emerged to treat ills of the “whole person” but quickly divided between practitioners chiefly oriented either to physiology or to psychiatry. Taking the lead of Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysts recast anorexia nervosa and other forms of troubled eating as manifestations...

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