1st Edition

Family Influences and Psychosomatic Illness An inquiry into the social and psychological background of duodenal ulcer

Edited By E. M. Goldberg Copyright 1958
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    322 Pages
    by Routledge

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
    This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
    Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1958 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

    PREFACE, I INTRODUCTORY, II THE FAMILIES OF THREE ULCER PATIENTS, III FAMILY LIFE AND DUODENAL ULCERSOME HYPOTHESES, IV THE MOTHERS' NATAL FAMILIES AND PERSONALITIES, V THE MOTHERS' ATTITUDES TO THE UPBRINGING OF THEIR CHILDREN, VI THE FATHERS, VII THE MARRIAGES OF THE PARENTS, VIII THE CHILDHOOD OF THE YOUNG MEN, IX THE FAMILIES-THEIR FUNCTIONING AND COHESION, X SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS, APPENDICES, INDEX

    Biography

    E. M. Goldberg