On psychogenic diseases in gynecology

Abstract

A one-sided anatomical approach to the evaluation of disease manifestations contributed to the fact that physicians focused all their attention on the diseased organ, forgetting about the personality as a whole. The last decade, enriched by advances in endocrinology, the doctrine of constitution, reflexology, has opened a new page in the understanding of the essence of human disease. A new direction in science about the relation between body and spirit is revealed. Especially gynecology, from the study of the female genital apparatus, becomes a science of woman in the broad sense of the word. We owe the development of scientific questions in gynecology in this latter direction mainly to Wahlthard and Liepmann.

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