ABSTRACT
The problem of “psychosomatic correlation” has been discussed by many researchers from the point of view of such dichotomies as “body and mind” or “brain and consciousness.” It can hardly be assumed that any unitary viewpoint could create a satisfactory synthesis. For instance, when medical students happen to ask me whether psychiatry would eventually become reduced to neurology or when psychology students raise the question of whether clinical psychology might be a future state of psychiatry, I, an old psychiatrist, answer both questions with a simple “No.” My answer is based upon our need as clinicians to envision the patient as a whole person. Let me elaborate.
