title: Psychosocial stressors and adjustment disorder: van Gogh's life chart illustrates stress and disease.
abstract: The life of Vincent van Gogh is illustrative of the natural history of psychosocial stressors and their relationship to a person's states of health and disease. In the author's opinion, there is a lack of such understanding in the current, established criteria for psychosocial stressors in the diagnosis of adjustment disorder. By use of a life chart, which chronologically documents a person's major life events and concomitant health status over his or her life span, a fuller understanding can be reached regarding why an individual becomes ill at a particular time.
authors.affiliation: University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno 89520.
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Rahe
mesh_terms: D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history*; D015984:Causality; D005197:Famous Persons; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D010151:Paintings / Q000266:history; D011379:Prognosis; D013405:Suicide / Q000266:history