The law of mental medicine : the correlation of the facts of psychology and histology in their relation to mental therapeutics / by Thomson Jay Hudson,...

  • Hudson, Thomson Jay, 1834-1903.
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1903
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    Page peutic Agencies the Primary and Normal Means for this End. — Physical Agencies not excluded. — A Mental Stimulus more direct and positive than a Physical One. — Material Remedies Good and Legitimate Forms of Suggestion. — Whether Reme- dies are Material or Mental, they must energize the Central Controlling Intelligence. — The Therapeutic Value of all Agen- cies proportioned to their Power to stimulate the Subjective Mind.— Suggestion the Prepotent Therapeutic Energy. — This is the Law of Mental Healing. — The Teleological Argument to be drawn from the Law of Mental Medicine. — None other so demonstrative of Divine Benevolence. — Absence of Fear and Pain at the Moment of Dissolution. — This Phenomena, con- sidered together with the Law of Mental Healing, possesses a Teleological Significance. — The Law of Mental Healing is uni- versal and adapted to every Grade of Human Intelligence.— Antiquity of Suggestion as a Therapeutic Agent. — Its Myriad Forms. — All effective in proportion to their Faith-Inspiring Potency. — Scientific Significance of the Beliefs and Practices of Primitive Humanity. — All were useful, and each was adapted to some Special Grade of Intelligence. — Primitive Minds still exist in the Highest Modern Civilization with Corresponding Powers of Reasoning. — Current Beliefs adapted to Varying Grades of Intelligence.—Their Religious Features Potent Factors in their Success. — Systems based upon Error less efficacious than one founded upon Truth. — Nearly all refer the Healing Power to Extraneous Sources, an Error which Jesus insistently controverted 31 CHAPTER IV THE DUPLEX MENTAL ORGANISM Faith can be acquired by Study and Reasoning. — Thus acquired, it is perfect and permanent. — It is essential that the Healer be grounded in the Fundamental Principles of his Science. — The Phenomena of Dreams point to the Theory of the Dual Mind.— The Operations of the Dream Intelligence essentially different from those of Waking Consciousness. — The Subjective, or Dream Intelligence incapable of Inductive Reasoning, and con- trolled by Suggestion. — Rapidity of Subjective Mentation.— Hypnotism a Means by which Dreams can be induced, con- trolled, and experimented with. — It is the Instrument for the Investigation of the Problems of Psychology. — It has found in Man a Soul, and revealed the Evidence of its Divine Origin. —