1939

Launching of journal Psychosomatic Medicine, with Rockefeller Foundation influence “evident on almost every page.” The Journal’s editors included Flanders Dunbar, Franz Alexander, & Stanley Cobb, all Rockefeller grantees (T. Brown, 25). Publication of George Canby Robinson’s The Patient as a Person, whose program for treating the whole patient had three components: (a) integration of psychiatry and general medicine; (b) restoration of family physician in modern form; (c) recruitment of medical social workers to aid in assessment of personality, home environment and work relations (Tracy II, 64).