Concluding Comment by the Editor
Authors: Chase Patterson Kimball, Linford Rees, H. Musaph, David Shapiro, Robert G. Priest, Hellmuth Freyberger, Samuel A. Corson, Elizabeth O'Leary Corson, Paul Chauchard, Wilfred Dorfman, J.J. Groen, R.A. Ramsay, A.J. Krakowski, E.D. Wittkower, F. Engelsmann, Hoyle Leigh, Morton F. Reiser, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Yufiro Ikemi, Adolf-Ernst Meyer, Wolfram Schüffel, Ulrich Egle, Ulrich Schairer, Aegidius Schneider, Nicholas Destounis, Adam J. Krakowski, Renata Gaddini, Mauricio Knobel, Albert J. Silverman, L. Miller de Paiva, H. Nakao, Luigi Oreste Speciani, Günter Ammon, Jan Pohl, Yukihiro Ago, Hideki Teshima, Shoji Nagata, Sadahisa Inoue, Yujiro Ikemi, Y. Nakai, M. Sugita, T. Nakagawa, T. Araki, Y. Ikemi, Jacob Shanon, M. von Rad, M. Drücke, W. Knauss, F. Lolas, Hubert Speidel, Uwe Koch, Friedrich Balck, Jörg Kniess, J. Bastiaans, W. Bräutigam, Norman B. Levy, R. Lohmann, B. Voges, F. Meuter, K.U. Rath, W. Thomas, Cairns Aitken, Hans Molinski, H. Huebschmann, Milton V. Kline, B. Luban-Plozza, J. Suzuki, Y. Yamauchi, H. Yamamoto, U. Komuro, Morton F. Reiser, Yujiro Ikemi, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Johanna Margaretha Tamm, Keigo Okonogi, Hiroshi Iwai, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Tadanobu Tsunoda, John R.M. Goyeche
Journal: Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (1979)

More than 10 years ago I was asked by Prof. Freyberger to contribute to 'Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy' upon the theme of Psychosomatic Educa tion and Training.The main issue to be discussed was how two different abilities can be cultivated in one potential psychosomaticist; one being critical, intellec tual, logical (rational) and verbal ability, and the other non-critical, intuitive, emotional and non-verbal ability.My answer to this was that psychosomaticists should be guided to realize this secret through their own experience by lucidly observing both aspects which are actually at work in their own bodies, and that this process could be facilitated by practising some kind of self-discipline which promotes harmonized cerebral and psychophysiological activity as a whole.Such self-disciplinary practices cover both aspects.They are not restricted to intellec tual insightive endeavors such as personal analysis.Many valuable reports on how to educate students and practitioners and how to practice psychosomatic medicine have been presented at this congress.To my regret, however, we have heard only a few papers, notably those in the symposia on Oriental approaches, on the importance of self-education and self-experience.The question becomes how can we learn about our lives in accordance with a philosophy which allows us to actually experience the unity of the mind and body, which, I think, is the real basis of the education and practice of psychosomatic medicine.The answer inevitably leads us back to what I call 'great humility'.Through such efforts in self-education one can gradually become aware of both of these aspects which are actually living in ourselves, and which are constantly in conflict, resulting in psychophysiological pathologies (either func tional or organic).Prof. Chauchard pointed out that we have not been poorly created but we have been poorly educated, and suggested a rather concrete method as to how to activate the psychophysiological mechanisms including the brain stem which