There is now widespread recognition that emotional problems, to say nothing of the interactions of emotions with other manifestations of illness and disease, constitute a substantial component of all human suffering. For too long the pro- vision of medical care has been restricted to the physical aspects of that suffer- ing while the psychological aspects have been shunned. Whether through igno- rance about the nature of emotional illness and its clinical management, or through uncertainty about the legitimacy of their ministrations, physicians and many other health professionals have left...