Abstract
The French psychosomatic medicine has been developing in an original way along with psychoanalysis as the Paris psychosomatic school (Ecole de Paris) . At first, in order to offer criticism on the Chicago school's characterology or psychogenesis, Pierre Marty and his colleagues, founders of the Paris psychosomatic institute (L'Insitute psychosomatique : IPSO) , have been elucidating the common essential structures among various psychosomatic diseases. Operatory thinking, Iack of emotional expressions, Iack of fantasies and dreams, essential depression prior to symptoms and white relation (difficulty of transferences) were pointed out. And the psychosomatic classification was proposed in a psychodynamic bidimentional way. Second, under the influence of the psychosomatic conversion theory of Valabrega, many French psychosomaticians play an active part. Thirdly, in the Balint group, the Lacanians also play an active role. Lastly, heated debates between psychosomaticians and psychoanalysts at the Paris psychoanalytic society are now worty of notice.
