Unconscious Therapeutics, Or, the Personality of the Physician

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II VALUE AND VARIETIES OF MENTAL THEEAPEUTICS The value Before entering upon the varieties of mental thereof unconscious the-peutics and showing how and in what way the rapeutics. term 'Unconscious Therapeutics' may often be applied to them, I should like for a moment to say a word or two about their value--first of all on their own account, and, secondly, on account of their great importance in successful practice. In the first place I need not stop here to prove the existence of mental therapeutics. In a previous work I have done this at length,1 and, indeed, one has only to consider how many diseases are proMind can duced by the mind, to be led to the legitimate cure diseases u deduction that what can be mentally produced can produces. probably be mentally cured. And yet, simple as this conclusion appears, for years men have sought to cure with drugs alone, diseases confessedly of mental origin. I do not object to drugs as 1 Tlu Force of Mind, 2nd edit. J. & A. Churchill. adjuvants in these cases: for the truth remains No disease is purely that no disease is purely mental, any more than physical, any disease is purely physical. Hence material and mental remedies, not only empirically but scientifically, go well together. Mental therapeutics, however, not only co-exist Ordinary therapeu with material, but may be of greater importance. tic9 oftan Bymptom Drugs are sometimes given to relieve symptoms atic only, and symptoms moreover that might be beneficial. Mental therapeutics are not aimed at Mental therapeutics symptoms, but generally attack the root of the deal with disease, or at any rate its mental root. Alteratives for the mind are generally more important and efficacious than alteratives for the body. There are mental analogues to iodide o...