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Personality Characteristics of Psychosomatic Patients

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Biofeedback and Family Practice Medicine

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Writing a chapter about the personality characteristics of psychosomatic-prone patients poses several difficulties. The main problem arises from the ubiquitous nature of psychosomatic phenomena. To fall ill when stressed is as human as falling in love.

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  1. Veterans Administration Medical Center, Sepulveda, California, USA

    William H. Rickles (Staff Psychiatrist, Associate Research Psychiatrist)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William H. Rickles (Staff Psychiatrist, Associate Research Psychiatrist)

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  1. Sepulveda Veterans Administration Hospital, The School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William H. Rickles

  2. Sandweiss Biofeedback Institute, Beverly Hills, California, USA

    Jack H. Sandweiss

  3. Biofeedback Institute of San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

    David W. Jacobs

  4. United States International University, San Diego, California, USA

    Robert N. Grove

  5. Sonoma State University, Rohnert, California, USA

    Eleanor Criswell

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Rickles, W.H. (1983). Personality Characteristics of Psychosomatic Patients. In: Rickles, W.H., Sandweiss, J.H., Jacobs, D.W., Grove, R.N., Criswell, E. (eds) Biofeedback and Family Practice Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1173-7_11

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