The Asthmatic Child: Psychosomatic Approach to Problems and Treatment

In December, 1961, a symposium concerning the psychosomatic aspects of asthma in childhood was held at Downstate Medical Center, State University of New York, College of Medicine. That symposium forms the basis of this book, in which 18 authors, mainly psychiatrists, have contributed to a survey of the psychiatric knowledge of the asthmatic child. Detailed case histories are included in 10 of the 15 papers that comprise this volume. These histories provide interesting and generally well-written vignettes of certain asthmatic children. In many cases the mother-child relationships are manifestly disturbed.