PSYCHOLOGY IN MEDICINE
RELATION TO ENVIRONMENT. “The introduction of a more psychological approach to a medical case has emphasised the necessity of considering the patient as a whole in relation to his environment,” said Sir Walter Langdon Brown in a recent address. “Obviously increasing specialism renders this at once more difficult and more essential. That physical symptoms may have a psychical origin and enable a psychical dilemma to be burked has become clearly recognised, and should always be borne in mind both in teaching and in practice. It has been said sardonically that the trouble with psychotherapy is the psychotherapists. Unfortunately there is an element of truth in this. 'Who drives fat oxen must himself be fat’ ran the old Latin tag. But I do not think it is true that he who treats psychoneurotics must himself to be a neurotic. It may be urged that one who has solved his own conflicts can best help another to do the same. Whether he can also sufficiently regard the case unemotionally and objectively is more doubtful.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 5
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175PSYCHOLOGY IN MEDICINE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 5
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