This treatise lays out the bases of psychosomatic medicine.

This book is the culmination of forty studies, each carried out over a period of thirty-five years on several dozens of patients presenting somatic illnesses. Together, these studies lay out the foundations of psychosomatic medicine, the symptomatology of emotions, the role of existential trauma and factors involved, adaptive reactions, and some specific pathologies, as well as the individual reactions of patients dealing with their illness and the resulting therapeutic possibilities.