Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A Conference on psychosomatic aspects of neoplastic diseases was held in Cambridge, England from 22nd to 26th July, 1963, under the auspices of the International Psychosomatic Cancer Study Group. In the conference, thought-provoking papers were presented to draw attention to the importance of the much-neglected psychological causes of neoplastic diseases.
That emotional conflicts play an important role in the occurrence of malignancy was shown in the work of G.Nemeth and A.Mzel, using a combination of Rorschach Tests and analysis of patient’s backgrounds and life histories. Smither, one of the leading specialists in the field, concluded from much other observation: “Cancer is no more a disease of cells than a traffic-jam is a disease of cars”. In other words, the fast multiplication of cells is not the cause of cancer.
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