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H. pylori at Last Gets Its Due

By Drake Bennett — 2005

It may sound silly today, but Alexander's general ideas about psychosomatic illnesses survived in the work of another Hungarian emigrant, the endocrinologist Hans Selye. Known as "the father of stress," Selye, in 1936, was the first doctor to argue that stress was an identifiable medical phenomenon deserving of study.

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Dr. Franz Alexander, 73, Dies; Was Pioneer in Psychosomatics; Analyst Led Chicago Institute for 25 Years—Authority on and Student of Freud

Franz Gabriel Alexander has been described on more than one occasion as the father of psychosomatic medicine. For almost 25 years, he was director of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, where he trained many of the leading students of emotional disturbances and psychosomatic diseases.

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The New York Times Archives
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