Abstract
1. The difficulties of objective diagnoses in diseases of emotional origin are discussed.
2. The findings are given of psychiatric diagnoses by all physicians in 8,000 participants in a prepaid medical care plan, over a period of one year.
3. These findings are shown in terms of percentage of total expenditure, episodes of illness, services and number of sick persons per 1,000 per annum.
4. In order of frequency of occurrence the conditions were: Anxiety Reaction without Somatic Symptoms, Nervousness and Debility, Psychoneurotic orders, mixed and unspecified, Psychoneurosis with somatic symptoms affecting the Digestive System, Primary Childhood behaviour Disorders, followed by Psychoneurosis with Somatic Symptoms affecting the Circulatory System, Psychoneurosis with somatic symptoms affecting other systems and Neurotic Depressive Reaction.