Word: bahnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parental Problem. But why, Bahnson wondered, would tragedy and loss render only some people cancer-prone when almost every human being experiences them during a lifetime...
Apparently most prone to cancer, said Conference Chairman Claus B. Bahnson, professor of psychiatry at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, are persons who deny and repress their emotions after experiencing personal loss or tragedy. Rather than expressing grief normally through mourning, such people, he said, channel their emotional response internally through the nervous system. This in turn upsets the body's hormonal balance. It may also affect immunological processes. Both of these mechanisms may play a significant role in controlling and combatting the rogue cell growth of cancer...
Checking the psychological back grounds of some 80 cancer patients, Bahnson found that they all had a "poor, ungratifying, mechanical relationship to their parents." Since the parents were unable or unwilling to respond emotionally, he said, their chil dren developed a tendency to repress rather than express their own emotions...
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