This essay examines how psychosomatic medicine, as it emerged between 1920 and 1960, introduced new ideas about the emotional body and the emotional self. Focusing on cancer, a shift can be mapped over the course of the twentieth century. While cancer was regarded at the beginning of the century as the organic disease par excellence, traceable to malignant cells and thus not caused or influenced by emotions, in later decades it would come to be thoroughly investigated within the field of psychosomatic medicine. This essay illuminates why and how this shift occurred in Germany and how it was affected by the earlier turn toward a psychosomatic understanding of cancer in the United States.

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感觉身体及其疾病：20世纪德国人癌症如何发生心身疾病。

本文研究了心身医学（1920到1960年间出现的）如何引入有关情感身体和情感自我的新观念。着眼于癌症，可以在二十世纪的过程中规划出一个转变。尽管癌症在本世纪初被认为是卓越的器质性疾病，可追溯到恶性细胞，因此不受情绪的影响或影响，但在随后的几十年中，它将在心身医学领域进行深入研究。本文阐明了这种转变在德国发生的原因和方式，以及这种转变是如何受到早期对美国癌症的心身理解的影响而受到影响的。