"Sketches in Psychosomatic Medicine" is a fascinating treatise on
psychological illness and remedy by William A. White. Within it, White
explores the relationship between the physical and the mental, looking
at organic causes of mental ailments and how they might be treated. This
volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in
psychopathology and the development of modern psychology. Contents
include: "What Price Healing?", "Psychopathology and Organic Disease",
"Dupuytren's Contracture", "The Psyche and the Vegetative Nervous
System", "The Bodily Organs and Psychopathology", "The Skin, Nervous
System and the Bath", etc. William Alanson White (1870 - 1937) was an
American neurologist and psychiatrist. Other notable works by this
author include: "Mental Mechanisms" (1911), "Outlines of Psychiatry"
(1915), and "Diseases of the Nervous System" (1915). Many vintage books
such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in
mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern,
high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new
biography of the author.