"Illness as Conflict" is the title of a collection of essays on psychosomatic medicine. Each of these studies seeks, in line with the insights of Freud and modern psychology regarding the mutual influence of organic and psychological processes, to understand illness as a communication of profound, often hidden behavioral disorders. Illnesses express something. They convey individual and social life, misfortune, and well-being; they articulate conflicts that the physician must decipher and understand in order for healing to occur. Mitscherlich's essays aim to contribute to the typology of such conflicts and to illuminate their possible causes.