title: Operational thinking at adolescence in relation to psychosomatic disorder.
abstract: This article represents an attempt from a developmental point of view to construct theoretical links between psychic and somatic functioning as they are manifest in psychosomatic illness and to relate this process to the types of thinking - preoperational and operational - that determine the insights into disease available to the adolescent mind.
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Anthony