Psychosomatic Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults

Proceedings of a Conference Held by the Society for Psychosomatic Research at the Royal College of Physicians, London. November 1960

1st Edition - January 1, 1965
Editors: John Hambling, Philip Hopkins
Language: English
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 2 3 1 7 - 9

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Psychosomatic Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults covers the proceedings of the 1960 Conference, held by the Society for Psychosomatic Research at the Royal College of Physicians, London. This conference considers psychosomatic disorders occurring between the ages of 15-25 years and discusses the mental transformation from childhood to adult maturity. This book is organized into eight sessions encompassing 26 chapters. The first two sessions review the concepts of mental health and the psychosexual development in adolescence. The next sessions looks into the issues of teenage pregnancy, menstrual disorders, emotional sweating, male sexual disorders, epilepsy in adolescence, and psychosomatic aspects of acne vulgaris. These topics are followed by discussions on stress-related disorders, including tuberculosis and acute appendicitis. The remaining sessions describe certain aspects of mental transformation, such as the link between family and emotional maturity and fitness for marriage.