The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-27
SCIENCE TOPROBE MIND CURE.
NEW SOCIETY AFTER THE
shtfRU7H ABOUT DISEASE.

eneelellsts, % Medicine Psychology n
Tneolegy Unite 70 Discover What the
DnlPart Of Each 10 In Healing the Sick
sa9Isx science ana Others Explored.
There n o new movement a~foot-or
aSyfnSl-in the psychical realm. 1t aims
nat 70 dispute the field, the ether or the
cetuiedn, with Christian Scientists or New
Thoughtists or Mental Healers or Mind
Csirists or Emanuelists Or plain psychol-
osists, But It does aim to beat them all
and ssrye mankind at the same. time by
getting at the element Of truth which In
the conception OF its o~riglnators lies at
the bpttorn4of them ail-orat least may Lie
there.
The new Investigation resolves itself
Into aroourse OF reading In what Its pro-
1eetorslcaA psyohotherapy. although this
t~itisvnwhidh ID roughly translatable as
mental healing, Is not accepted by all OF
ths aesociAtes In tie movement as accu-
rassay descriptive Of the u Psychic
therapy 10 to combine Sound psychology,
sound medicine and sound religion" So
ssysitsprospeotus. For Q motto 1t quotes
nTThis isrthe egfeatierror OF our day in
the treatment of the human body. that
physicians' separate the soul from the
body:
The implication that physicians gene
rally are materialists. Ia not lodged by
teloual executor Of the purposes OF the
new Investigation. He is William b.
Pssis0f. formerly head Of the department
Of sEnglish at Columbia University. Mr..
Parker said yesterday that he wal in
clinsd 70 think that the physioians were
ednBewhat oonoerned, especially in this
o6nhtfy,, with the growth and spread OF
thso deat that there was q great M de-
sirsblc potency In the mental or psychic
eaSaty. for the cure Of disease and the
maintenance OF. mental and physical
hslath.s In Europe, he said. the subject
had beeu more successfully studied and
further carried than here, for the reason
that there IL had been more completely
i'd the care Of professional students who
want, At It scientifically. while over here
rs Idly had taken the whole matter into
Tin IVA hands with varying and not
aAsays scientific results.
BDnA6speople Interested In the subject.
M; psEker said. had suggested q con-
odrssd movement toward Qualification.
tosSfd the elimination, OF the unscien-
HnosSth hectic the international.
Ay.febtadyS effort 10 this- end brought
forth Gnoh q willingness to o~ollaborate
on The part Of real students In. the two
h~eehiBphefesJ that he had decided to
fofSSDp Ris, college 6eachihg and devote
hlrasek 10 the new work. which has been
ofasniDedau under the title of the Centre
pSbiishing Company. with w. B. Parker
aSAeonsulting editor.
Mr.; PARKER said yesterday that he did
net care at the present time to give the
nkrneSof the men who had added financial
bs&tfng to their intellectual interest.
The new movement could only succeed
byfeppbHo support. This it invited by
tendsring the best thought Of the most
tua6s were fimpracticable a course OF
reading had been determined. The first
pafaphlet goes out on October 1.
fpSychofherapy, : the preliminary book
let rays. SIS briefly mental. moral and
spirftual help for mental or physical all
OF, fnankfnd probably have been OF more
vifaf bigniicance than this. now on foot.
to, put psychotherapy to effective use.
Int leaders in science n in religious
thought, two Of the greatest powers Of
civilization, are cooperating 70 relieve
sufering and widen life. Requests for
Information have come to leaders Of the
movement from every quarter.
sThe COURSE Is Intended to present In
attractive, and Ineligible form the re-
suits OF the best thought, the best inyes-
legations Of the scientific and medical
world In this field, To this end the ooun-
sel has been sought and obtained OF the
s SSsaS y Su IL =! branches OF learning
Among the persons named as coun-
eeliors are Prof. j. j.. Putnam and DR..
Richard o Cabot of the Harvard medical
school, the Rev. DR.. Loring W Batten,
rector Of st. Marks Church in the Bowery,
General Theological Seminary; DR.. r. 8.
Woodgorth. professor OF psychology In
Columbia University; DR.. Joseph Jastrow
Of thu University Of Wisconsin. DR.. James
R!-..Anken of, Chicago University. DR..
Josiah Royce. professor Of philosophy at
Harvard DR.. Frederick Peterson, pro.
lessor %. psychiatry at the College OF
RAv. DR.. Elwood Worcester Of the EN-
manuel Church, Boston; Bishop Samuel
Fsllows Of Chicago, John Milne Bramwell
DR., John e. Donley OF Providence. editor
Of the Journal Of. Abnormal Psychology.
and Or. Boris Sidis, described as an au-
The preliminary booklet says: "The
menswho have devoted their lives TO the
Study. Of the human mind and its material
counterpart. the nervous system. the
foremost psychological and nerve special
lists of this country and OF Europe, will
contribute the last and most authoritative
word that science has to say In this con-
nection. Noted ~clergymen. distinguished
leaders Of religious thought whose en-
thasfasm and devotion to the relief Of
suffering have made them the o%riginators
and directors Of this crusade OF e~nlighten-
ment and healing will contribute articles
describing the operation in theory and in
actual practice Of the spiritual, religious
and moral means employed in bringing
about itheirSwonderful successes"
In bis first article DR.. Cabot save aiis;
sHcientiic, rational mind cure las been
used In America in a systematic way
only within the past decad3. American
ply sicians fought shy Of 1t for a long
time, They had reasons Tor this, but not
infmyc opinion, good Teasons. One of the
most important of these reasons lay in
the.fact that Christian Scientists and other
unorthod6x schools Of healing were al
ready In the field and In competition with
sTosuggest in any way that therem night
be truth In these foolish and unreasonable
systems7 has seemed impossible to the
A1tef3csn physician. In Europe on the
other hand, where there has been no
movement among the iaity, where psy-
c~hotherapy has been wholly in the hands
Of physicians, it's scientific and. reason
abs sides have been developed. while
vein America have sat by n watched
th.abnfira und ayft-ox tn on ri Mr.