The Feeling Body and Its Diseases: How Cancer Went Psychosomatic in Twentieth-Century Germany

Hitzer, Bettina; León-Sanz, Pilar

doi:10.1086/687591

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“…Looking back offers some tools analysing present-day practice and linking these to broader currents of political and social change. and Hitzer (2022); Brown (2023), Chettiar (2023), Greene (2022), Hayward (2014) and Hitzer (2022). 2.…”

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Talking about sexual and reproductive health: counselling encounters in postwar Europe

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Talking about sexual and reproductive health: counselling encounters in postwar Europe

2023

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“…In Germany, nevertheless, there has been a line of holistic medicine starting from Groddeck's [37] speculations (also about cancer) [38] to Gestaltkreistheorie [39] and beyond. Along this line, Kaelin and Suchantke [40] saw cancer as a disease of the whole organism and created the concept of "cancer psyche" between the 1930s and 1950s. Their results are very similar to Evans' observations and to cancer studies before the twentieth century.…”

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Historical-Clinical Pathways to a Cancer Holistic Perspective

Balenci¹

2019

Madridge J Cancer Stud Res

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A historical reconstruction of the holistic approach to cancer is presented. A particular attention is given to the United States, since, after reductionism had prevailed in Western world, New York Jungian psychoanalyst Elida Evans published the first modern monograph about the psychology of cancer patients in 1926, proposing a holistic view of cancer again. Evans' theory has largely influenced cancer psychosomatics. Without pretension of completeness, research on cancer is discussed in its epidemiological, social, environmental, behavioural, and psychoanalytical aspects. The results of psychoneuroimmunology and the discoveries of developmental psychobiology are highlighted for their importance in a holistic vision of cancer. Assumption of this paper is that persistent dualism -studying body or mind -is depriving research of fundamental variables involved in human cancer; therefore, integrated multidisciplinary investigation is advocated.

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Psychosocial Factors Influence the Development and Progression of Cancer

Mravec

2024

Neurobiology of Cancer

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The Feeling Body and Its Diseases: How Cancer Went Psychosomatic in Twentieth-Century Germany

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Talking about sexual and reproductive health: counselling encounters in postwar Europe

Talking about sexual and reproductive health: counselling encounters in postwar Europe

Historical-Clinical Pathways to a Cancer Holistic Perspective

Psychosocial Factors Influence the Development and Progression of Cancer

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