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Abstract:
Students' difficulties in learning psychosomatic medicine are mainly due to their own anxieties. Some students are too anxious even to discuss the subject matter; and many who are as free as most people from inner fears find that this is not enough to enable them to help disturbed patients. Students therefore need to receive from the teacher, whenever required during the actual teaching, considerable help of the same kind as they are taught to give their patients. And, for the same reason, the teacher himself must have access to similar help from a more experienced colleague.
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