Description

"Sketches in Psychosomatic Medicine" is a fascinating treatise on psychological illness and remedy by William A. White. Within it, White explores the relationship between the physical and the mental, looking at organic causes of mental ailments and how they might be treated. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in psychopathology and the development of modern psychology. Contents include: "What Price Healing?", "Psychopathology and Organic Disease", "Dupuytren's Contracture", "The Psyche and the Vegetative Nervous System", "The Bodily Organs and Psychopathology", "The Skin, Nervous System and the Bath", etc. William Alanson White (1870 - 1937) was an American neurologist and psychiatrist. Other notable works by this author include: "Mental Mechanisms" (1911), "Outlines of Psychiatry" (1915), and "Diseases of the Nervous System" (1915). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.