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ROLE OF EMOTION IN DISORDERS OF THE SKIN

O. SPURGEON ENGLISH, M.D.
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From the Department of Psychiatry, Temple University School of Medicine.


Arch Dermatol. 1949;60(6):1063-1076. doi:10.1001/archderm.1949.01530070003001
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THAT emotion plays a role in disorders of the skin is a fact accepted by most, if not all, dermatologists. This fact has been well elaborated in the literature, both by those specializing in the field of dermatology and those in the field of psychiatry who have joined with dermatologists in thinking through some of the complicated disease conditions within that field of endeavor.

The psychosomatic approach to any disease makes a much greater demand for knowledge of causes, pathologic processes and procedures of treatment than any single newly discovered disease. This is because a whole new system of dynamic forces, emanating from the mind, which act as toxic agents, must be known and understood. Emotions can be helpful phenomena in the life of man, but they can also be harmful and make him sick. These emotions must be understood as causes of symptoms, with some ability on

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Miller, H., and Baruch, D. D.:  Psychosomatic Studies of Children with Allergic Manifestations , Psychosom. Med. 10:275, 1948;.
Saul, L. J.:  Relations to Mother as Seen in Cases of Allergy , Nerv. Child. 5:332, 1946;.
MacKenna, A. M. B.:  Psychosomatic Factors in Cutaneous Disease , Lancet 2:679, 1944;.
Wittkower, E.:  Psychological Aspects of Skin Disease , Bull. Menninger Clin. 11:148, 1947;.
Stokes, J. H.; Kulchar, G. V., and Pillsbury, D. M.:  Effect on the Skin of Emotional and Nervous States: Etiological Background of the Urticaria with Special Reference to the Psychoneurogenous Factor , Arch. Dermat. & Syph. 31:470 ( (April) ) 1935;.
Saul, S. J., and Bernstein, C.:  The Emotional Settings of Some Attacks of Urticaria , Psychosom. Med. 3:349, 1941;.
Ingram, J. T.:  The Seborrhoeic Diathesis , Brit. M. J. 2:5, 1939;.

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Miller, H., and Baruch, D. D.:  Psychosomatic Studies of Children with Allergic Manifestations , Psychosom. Med. 10:275, 1948;.
Saul, L. J.:  Relations to Mother as Seen in Cases of Allergy , Nerv. Child. 5:332, 1946;.
MacKenna, A. M. B.:  Psychosomatic Factors in Cutaneous Disease , Lancet 2:679, 1944;.
Wittkower, E.:  Psychological Aspects of Skin Disease , Bull. Menninger Clin. 11:148, 1947;.
Stokes, J. H.; Kulchar, G. V., and Pillsbury, D. M.:  Effect on the Skin of Emotional and Nervous States: Etiological Background of the Urticaria with Special Reference to the Psychoneurogenous Factor , Arch. Dermat. & Syph. 31:470 ( (April) ) 1935;.
Saul, S. J., and Bernstein, C.:  The Emotional Settings of Some Attacks of Urticaria , Psychosom. Med. 3:349, 1941;.
Ingram, J. T.:  The Seborrhoeic Diathesis , Brit. M. J. 2:5, 1939;.

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