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June, 1943 PSYCHOTHERAPY—GREENHILL 203 eration should make possible any wise and necessary expansion of medical service and at the same time maintain the present high standards of efficiency to which American medicine has risen. As Dr. W. J. Mayo said, "How can laymen be expected to accept (wise) legislation for the regulation of medical practice when most of the information they receive about medical matters comes to them from the advertisements of patent medicine vendors and voluble charlatans?" They might accept such legislation for medical regulation, it is true; but unless they are informed they will accept it in ignorance and with a lasting regret. In his address as President of the American Medical Association Dr. Mayo stated that, "If we wish better results, we must enlighten the people (and the authorities) for with them lies the final word." A determined continuation of our past complacency is neither good for us nor good for the people we serve. Let us lead the way to a greater and ever better medical service and, in the words of our Governor, let us see that we do not "fail to meet the challenge of the new day." And now to you, gathered in full meeting, I must take this, my first opportunity, to express my sincere appreciation for the confidence, the honor and the friendship which election to this office implies and which I have done so little to deserve. Being your president has been a most pleasant undertaking, but not an. easy one. It would have been impossible to function at all without your constant cooperation and advice. I trust that the duties of this office have been discharged in a way so as not to reflect discredit on our profession or on our organization, but rather to commend our profession and our organization to the citizens of this commonwealth. Opposition to Totalitarianism.—Opposition to totalitarianism is not merely because it attacks man's rights but also because it suppresses his personality. Individuality is the kernel of democracy, the biological basis of the struggle for freedom. When we fight for individuality we fight on the side of nature. Recognition of individuality and all that it implies especially concerns us as scientists. Even if science were again persecuted and driven under cover, as it was in the middle ages, there would still be some brave inquiring minds. But science can not flourish without freedom of thought and its expression.— Albert Francis Blakeslee: Individuality and Science, Science 95:7 (January 2) 1942. PSYCHOTHERAPY WITHIN PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE Maurice H. Greenhill, M.D. Durham Some day it may be said that internal medicine and psychiatry started at opposite poles and finally arrived at the same conclusion. It may then be universally recognized that the gastro-enterologist, dealing with peristaltic function and gastric acidity, the neu-rophysiologist, fortified with specific knowledge of the effect of the hypothalamus upon gastric function, and the psychiatrist, treating a patient who has made a suicidal attempt after a long history of epigastric pain and recurrent depression, have been concerned with different manifestations of the same entity. Today psychosomatic medicine is the common meeting ground of psychiatry and all the other branches of medicine. Tomorrow it may be realized that all medicine is psychosomatic medicine. There is some evidence to show that the trend is in that direction. Those medical men who still think in terms of the medieval conception of body and mind actually have difficulty in perceiving the meaning of psychosomatic medicine. These are the men who still think in terms of "functional" and "organic", despite the evidence culled during the tw^entieth century that no disease is either functional or organic, but that all diseases display disturbed function, that most produce altered structure, and that if in certain instances present technical methods cannot demonstrate any material change in tissues affected, nothing as yet can with finality rule out pathological changes in the involved organs. They forget that meningococcus meningitis was at one time classified as hysteria. To these men the conception of mind differs little from that of the priest's conception of the soul, with this difference: To the priest the soul is potentially good, the body latently evil; while to the physician the body is good, and the soul potentially evil, since it tends to trick the body and may interfere with the physician's treatment. On the other hand, those who realize that From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham. Based upon a talk made before the Section on the Practice of Medicine, Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, Charlotte, May 12, 1942.
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
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Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1943 |
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Document Title | North Carolina Medical Journal [1940-2001] |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- Periodicals.; Physicians -- North Carolina -- Directory.; Societies, Medical -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Description | Includes Transactions of the Society, -1960; 1961- , Transactions issued separately, bound in.; Includes Transactions of the auxiliary to the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina and Proceedings of the North Carolina Public Health Association. Official organ of the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, 1940-May 1972; of the North Carolina Medical Society, June 1972-. Vols. for 1940-May 1972 published by the Medical Society of the State of North Carolina; June 1972- by the North Carolina Medical Society. |
Contributor | Medical Society of the State of North Carolina. Transactions.; Medical Society of the State of North Carolina.; North Carolina Medical Society.; North Carolina Medical Society. Transactions.; North Carolina Public Health Association. Proceedings. |
Publisher | [Winston-Salem] : North Carolina Medical Society [etc.], 1940- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1943 |
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Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Volume Number | 4 |
Issue Number | 6 |
Page Number | 203 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | June, 1943 PSYCHOTHERAPY—GREENHILL 203 eration should make possible any wise and necessary expansion of medical service and at the same time maintain the present high standards of efficiency to which American medicine has risen. As Dr. W. J. Mayo said, "How can laymen be expected to accept (wise) legislation for the regulation of medical practice when most of the information they receive about medical matters comes to them from the advertisements of patent medicine vendors and voluble charlatans?" They might accept such legislation for medical regulation, it is true; but unless they are informed they will accept it in ignorance and with a lasting regret. In his address as President of the American Medical Association Dr. Mayo stated that, "If we wish better results, we must enlighten the people (and the authorities) for with them lies the final word." A determined continuation of our past complacency is neither good for us nor good for the people we serve. Let us lead the way to a greater and ever better medical service and, in the words of our Governor, let us see that we do not "fail to meet the challenge of the new day." And now to you, gathered in full meeting, I must take this, my first opportunity, to express my sincere appreciation for the confidence, the honor and the friendship which election to this office implies and which I have done so little to deserve. Being your president has been a most pleasant undertaking, but not an. easy one. It would have been impossible to function at all without your constant cooperation and advice. I trust that the duties of this office have been discharged in a way so as not to reflect discredit on our profession or on our organization, but rather to commend our profession and our organization to the citizens of this commonwealth. Opposition to Totalitarianism.—Opposition to totalitarianism is not merely because it attacks man's rights but also because it suppresses his personality. Individuality is the kernel of democracy, the biological basis of the struggle for freedom. When we fight for individuality we fight on the side of nature. Recognition of individuality and all that it implies especially concerns us as scientists. Even if science were again persecuted and driven under cover, as it was in the middle ages, there would still be some brave inquiring minds. But science can not flourish without freedom of thought and its expression.— Albert Francis Blakeslee: Individuality and Science, Science 95:7 (January 2) 1942. PSYCHOTHERAPY WITHIN PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE Maurice H. Greenhill, M.D. Durham Some day it may be said that internal medicine and psychiatry started at opposite poles and finally arrived at the same conclusion. It may then be universally recognized that the gastro-enterologist, dealing with peristaltic function and gastric acidity, the neu-rophysiologist, fortified with specific knowledge of the effect of the hypothalamus upon gastric function, and the psychiatrist, treating a patient who has made a suicidal attempt after a long history of epigastric pain and recurrent depression, have been concerned with different manifestations of the same entity. Today psychosomatic medicine is the common meeting ground of psychiatry and all the other branches of medicine. Tomorrow it may be realized that all medicine is psychosomatic medicine. There is some evidence to show that the trend is in that direction. Those medical men who still think in terms of the medieval conception of body and mind actually have difficulty in perceiving the meaning of psychosomatic medicine. These are the men who still think in terms of "functional" and "organic", despite the evidence culled during the tw^entieth century that no disease is either functional or organic, but that all diseases display disturbed function, that most produce altered structure, and that if in certain instances present technical methods cannot demonstrate any material change in tissues affected, nothing as yet can with finality rule out pathological changes in the involved organs. They forget that meningococcus meningitis was at one time classified as hysteria. To these men the conception of mind differs little from that of the priest's conception of the soul, with this difference: To the priest the soul is potentially good, the body latently evil; while to the physician the body is good, and the soul potentially evil, since it tends to trick the body and may interfere with the physician's treatment. On the other hand, those who realize that From the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham. Based upon a talk made before the Section on the Practice of Medicine, Medical Society of the State of North Carolina, Charlotte, May 12, 1942. |
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