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Show Body Tells Tales About Its Owner's Emotional Upsets "Organ Jargon" Is Clue in Discovering Ailments THE human body sometimes turns tattler and tells tales that its owner would never reveal re-veal by word of mouth. Such tale-telling, in which the internal inter-nal organs are spokesmen, is described by a psychiatrist, Dr. Douglas Gordon Campbell of the University of Chicago In a report In a recent Issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. "Organ Jargon," Doctor Campbell calls this tale-telling, quoting from the Viennese psychiatrist, Dr. Alfred Al-fred Adler. This does not mean the kind of "organ recitals" sometimes Indulged In at sewing circles when the conversation turns to operations, gallbladders and appendixes. "Organ Jargon" is what goes on in certain perplexing ailments for which the physician can find no material cause and no successful medicines. These ailments, It Is estimated, es-timated, make up two-thirds or more of the cases coming to practitioners and general clinics. Organs Are Affected. The patient complains of a too rapid pulse, or digestive disorders, or Impaired sexual function. Yet careful examinations show that there Is nothing wrong with the organs complained of except that they are not functioning normally. As Doctor Campbell sees It, they are telling tales of social or emotional emo-tional disturbances that the patient fails to put Into words. The organ jargon Is a "kind of language by which a patient expresses his attitude atti-tude to some problem of sSeial adjustment ad-justment confronting him." The social adjustment may be caused by the loss of money or the birth of a child who takes from the patient his or her accustomed place In the spotlight of family attention. at-tention. Whatever the adjustment.lt causes emotion In the patient. Some experience expe-rience emotion as a "mood" a so-called so-called psychic experience, Doctor Campbell explains. Others experience experi-ence an emotional reaction which is a physiological experience. |