[SYMPOSIUM ON PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE AND INTERNAL DISEASES].

Historically, psychosomatic medicine (PSM) began its full-scale activity after the World War I and has increasingly become living during and after the last war. The year 1939, already twenty some years ago, saw for the first time Felix Deutsch appointed Professor of PSM in the United States. In Japan, the Japanese Psychosomatic Society was brought to fruition in 1957^ thenceforth our PSM studies have been growing in the promising direction.