Helen Flanders Dunbar
Summary
Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902 - 1959) was a psychoanalyst who specialized in Psychosomatic Medicine.
She related "personality constellations" and situational factors to psychosomatic disorders.
Her ideas influenced the concept of the Unity of Health/ Emotion (see Vital Unconscious, Biocentric Principle, and Psychological Aspects of Biodanza).
Ideas
- Dunbar surveyed a range of physical illnesses and personality types and correlated personality types with diseases.
- She also emphasised the importance of emotions in disease.
- Dunbar hoped Psychosomatic Medicine would integrate the treatment of spirtual, emotional and physical suffering into a single framework.
See Also
Albert Hofmann: prominent Swiss scientist and best known as the discoverer of LSD.
Franz Alexander: was a psychoanalytic pioneer, his productivity ranged creatively over fields as diverse as Psychosomatic Medicine, sociology, philosophy, criminology, and the visual arts.
Juan Rof Carballo: physician, writer, father of Psychosomatic Medicine, and menber of the Spanish Royal Academy.
Links
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Flanders_Dunbar
Biographies: http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/dunbar.html,
http://www.psych.yorku.ca/femhop/Helen%20Dunbar.htm