Summary
Psychosomatics as an academic subject and independent field of medicine
originated in 1970. There is a lack of literature in Georgian regarding
this trend, therefore we consider it important to present the Georgian
version of some chapters of the famous psychiatric handbook by C. Faust,
the German psychiatrist. In this handbook the ethiopathogenesis
of psychosomatic diseases is considered from a psychodynamic angle. In
the first edition an account of the psychosomatic cardiovascular diseases
as published: heart infarction and heart neurosis. In both cases such important
issues as psychopathology, psychosomatic ethiopathogenesis, and
psychosomatic therapy are described in details.