Early psychosomatic pathology.

Abstract

Early life vicissitudes and care, which are physical and concrete variables in their occurrence, but which are stored in the infant's mind in terms of relationships and emotional interplay, are basic for development in terms of body as well as of psychic orientation. Just as in psychic growth the interplay continues in the child's investment in the outside world (object), in the physical growth distorted early relationships, possibly deviated by the infant's physiological immaturities, interfere with the child's total health, and may lead to early psychosomatic pathology.