Open AccessPhysician and the psychogenesis of some internal diseases
Author(s) -
R. A. Luria
Publication year - 1928
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj89798
Subject(s) - intuition , empiricism , disease , personality , epistemology , pathological , medicine , organism , psychology , psychotherapist , intensive care medicine , psychoanalysis , pathology , philosophy , biology , paleontology
The personality of the physician at all times has undoubtedly had an enormous, sometimes powerful and even decisive influence on the course and outcome of a number of diseases. Even back then, when there was no talk of scientific medicine and therapy based on precise knowledge of anatomical changes and pathological-physiological processes in the human organism, which constitute the essence of a disease, the doctor's behavior alone, based on intuition and empiricism, often decided the fate of the patient.