I am delighted to announce that three papers on the history of psychosomatic medicine by the distinguished historian of medicine Theodore M. Brown have been placed on the Free Associations web site. This site is part of the much larger project of human-nature.com which includes a broad range of contents and links: http://www,human-nature.com Theodore M. Brown, 'The Rise and Fall of Psychosomatic Medicine' http://human-nature.com/free-associations/riseandfall.html T. M. Brown is an historian of medicine at the University of Rochester in New York State. He here offers an overview of the history of psychosomatic medicine in America, inspired by psychoanalytic thinking and superceded by reductionist models. Theodore M. Brown, 'The Historical and Conceptual Foundations of the Rochester Biopsychosocial Model' http://human-nature.com/free-associations/engel2.html For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, the Medical School of the University of Rochester in upstate New York was a very active centrein the development of theory and experimental research in psychosomatc medicine. T. M. Brown is an historian of medicine at that university and has researched the history of the approach -embracing biological, psychological and social levels - which Was developed there under the leadership of George W. Engel. Theodore M. Brown, 'The Growth of George Engel's Biopsychosocial Model' http://human-nature.com/free-associations/engel1.html George Engel was arguably the most original, empirical and sophisticated researcher in the history of psychosomatic medicine. He certainly took the widest view of the subject, embracing the biological, psychological and social levels of explanation. Trained as an experimentalist, he united this approach with psychoanalysis and, most notably, conducted a series of experimental studies on a young girl who had a gastric fistula and ulcerative colitis. Secretions could thereby be correlated with emotional states. This research became the foundation for an approach to all of medicine whereby fear of loss was seen, along with other factors, as a fundamental cause of the clinical manifestation of disease. The historian of medicine Theodore M. Brown here tells the story of his career as emblematic of the rise and fall of the psychodynamic approach to psychosomatic medicine in America. Robert Maxwell Young [log in to unmask] http://www.human-nature.com