Abstract
Psychosomatic medicine in the Tohoku district began with the lecture on somatization of psychiatric disease by Prof. S. Marui of Tohoku University Medical School in 1916. The establishment of the study group was realized by Prof. K. Kushima, Prof. F. Matsunaga, Prof. S. Yamagata and Prof. J. Suzuki after 1969 when the first local meeting of the study was started by Prof. J. Suzuki. The meeting has been held 64 times up to today. It is held at 6 medical schools in the Tohoku district by turns two times a year. In this paper, the history of the local and all other meetings of Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine will be mentioned including interesting episodes.
