RT Journal
A1 M.D.B.
T1 THe human need for an appointment with tomorrow
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1969
FD November 1
VO 124
IS 5
SP 635
OP 636
DO 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300210117018
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300210117018
AB The mind-body link comes up in internal medicine all the time. It rarely leaves the scene of action and it is often the central theme that underscores the symphony of complaints that the patient may recite. There are life problems—situational difficulties, unpleasant and disturbing emotional experiences—and the patient comes to the physician with a host of distressing symptoms. How to proceed? Where to focus the therapeutic effort? As an illustrative symptom complex the pattern presented by the recently retired older individual may be cited. So frequently has it been encountered as part of the work at the Center for the Study of the Aging here at Duke University that it has been referred to as the "retirement syndrome." In reviewing the basis for this pattern of symptoms, it became apparent that the syndrome not only provides an extraordinarily well-focused vignette of what is disturbing older patients, but also that it