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Abstract
In the last 15 years of his life Dr Alexis Brook directed his interest in psychosomatic medicine towards the study of the relationship between emotions and eye problems. This paper describes the history of this work, and concentrates on Alexis's exploration of the feelings behind two eye problems that are prevalent in general practice: Blepharitis and watering eyes.
Notes
1. This activity was part of a pilot project funded by a bequest made by William Inman's widow to the British Psychoanalytic Society with a view to developing psychosomatic ophthalmology (Brook & Fenton, Citation1994).
2. Professor of Clinical Health Psychology at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.