STRESS DISORDERS
SIR,—Your correspondent Miles Howard, in big, report of the SPR Conference last week, did no emphasise, as I think he might 'have done, Ibe
direction of change in the balance of illness. , Not only is the framework of thought about illness, undergoing a change, but the relative incidence o stress disorder to 'organic' disease is too. We are, moving towards a time when the social and persona' factors in the causation of illness will outweigb physical hazard and malfunction. All the more important, then, that well-directed inquiries into the stress reactions of the human organism should be pursued on all fronts. There is, in my view, too much of the money available for clinical research still being devoted to the biophysics and biochemistry of disease and not enough to its human aspect —Yours faithfully, 'coNsuLTAN1
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