Bronchial asthma is a dramatic syndromevisible, audible, and frequent. For years, clinicians, and later research workers, have suspected that emotional factors played a role in it. Search for these has paralleled, in ways recapitulated, work done with other so-called "psychosomatic states." Yet, like them, the disorder presents unsolved problems, which concern the personality of its sufferers, the precise sources of their emotional tension, and the ways by which such tension may lead to physiological derangement.We will defer our answer to the latter questions and deal in this paper with the first one, which is broad and deceptively simple: What sort of person develops asthma? The From the
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