The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-27
SCIENCE YOPROBE HIND CURE
NEW SOCIETY AFTER THE
eS'FnU71H ABOUT DISEASE.

sper,aists. 90 Medicine, Psychology and
TheoIegy Unite to Discover what the
Dn4PArt Of Each 10 In Healing tho Sick
s,elax scieneo and Others Explored.
There is o new movement afoot-or
awinEL-in the psychioal realm. 1t aims
not TO dispute the field, the ether or the
cetdlean, with Christian Scientists or New
Thouehtjsts or Mental Healers or Mind
CErists or Emanuelists or plain psychol-
oaists, |, But 1t does aim to beat them oil
and serve mankind at the same. time by
getting at the element OF truth which in
the conception OF its origlnators lies at
the bpttorn7of them ail-or at least may Lie
there.
The new Investigation resolves itself
into arcourse OF reading In what its pro-
deotorsueaR psychotherapy. although this
~titlajnwhioh 10 roughly translatable as
mental healing, Is not accepted by all OF
The AasSciAtAs In the movement as accu-
rately descriptive Of the cause. Psyoho-
fherapy IL to combine Sound psychology,
ssoupd medicine and sound religion" So
saysits prospectus. For o motto 1t quotes
n%This b rthe Agreat,error OF II day In
the treatment OF the human body, that
phydoians' separate the soul from the
boy
Tho impiication that physicians gene
rally are materialiets. ia not lodged by
tie local executor Of the purposes Of the
nav Investigation. He is William b.
Psskef. formerly head Of the department
ct AFnxiish ct Columbia University. Mr..
Parker said yesterday that he was in
cJi6ed to. think that the physicians were
e6mswhat concerned. especially in this
o6dbtfy., with the growth and spread OF
th~etideanthat there was q great and de-
sirshls potency In the mental or psychic
ent3ty. for the cure Of disease and the
maintenance Of mental and physical
hsS1th- In. Europe. he said. the subject
hads besn more successfully studied and
fuffber, carried than here, for the reason
that thdre Il had been more completely
III Gle care Of professional students who
want It Il scientifically, while over here
It's lAity had taken the whole matter into
tKtlr ia64fkAqkanas, with varying and not
a6says scientific results. t,'.
B6mS;peopie Interested In the subject,
Nd. RsSker said. had suggested q -oon-
csrtsd movement toward Qualification.
towsfdt the elimination Of the unsoien-
tiaosItle hectic, q the International.
ASsatssss ,ss sah,a 81 this ,o end so, S5oSshs
on The part Of real students In. the two
h~ethispheFesJ that tho had decided to
fofSsSr his college Coaching and devote
himself 10 the new work, which has been
ori6snisSda under the title of the Centre
PS5ishing Company. with W. B. Parker
asconsulting editor.
M, Partner said yesterday that he did
ne scare &C the present time to give the
nkxnsSof tbs men who had added financial
bs&kins TO their intellectual interest.
TIA new movement could only succeed
by,EeppbHo support. This II invited by
tendsring the best thought of the most
cnelut investigators. As courses OF lee
txs2s were impracticable a course OF
reaRting had been determined. The first
pss9RsssSs, sOss oSs 9 she 1 DreIimi nary !; book
let says. sss briefly mental, moral and
spdfftud help for mental or physical all
mpnts. Few movements In the history
81, mankind probably have been OF moro
vital Significance b this, now on foot.
70 ,Rnt psychotherapy to elective use.
liz ~ I6<4u6IS III tbCiOlSo dAiu III IotiBiOuS
thougft, two OF the greatest powers Of
civilization. r cooperating TO relieve
eujfefinR and widen life. Requests for
Information have come to leaders Of the
movement from every quarter.
THE course Is intended to present in
attractive and intelligible form the re-
legations of the scientific and medical
woridm this field To this end the coun-
ses has been sought and obtained Of the
aqthorities IN al branches Of learning
Among the persons named as coun-
Richard b Cabot Of the Harvardmedical
sdhooi,, the Rev. DR.. Loring W. Batten.
rector Of 81, Mark 8 Church n the Bowery.
and rprofeessor Of church history in the
General Theological Seminary; DR.. r. 8.
Woodworth, professor OF psychology In
Columbia uniyersity; pr. Joseph 9astrow
Rl'st.Anken of, Chicago University, DR..
Josiah Royce. professor Of philosophy at
Harvard; DR.. Frederick Peterson, pro-
lessor Of psychietry at the College Of
PbyliciGfie and Surgeons. Columbia: the
RAY. DR.. Efwood Worcester Of the EN-
FsIlows Of Chicago. John Milne Bramwell.
DR.. John e. Donley Of Providence. editor
Of, the journal of Abnormal Psychology,
and DR. Boris Sidis. described as an au-
eb1rftys on sleep. ltI'2t - 7'i9
Tho preliminary booklet says: aThe
mensWho have devoted their lives to the
study. Of The human mind and its material
counterpart, the nervous system. the
foremost psychologists and nerve special
lists of thie country and Of Europe, will
contribute the last and most authoritative
wordlthat science hos to say In this COM
nection. Noted olergymen. distinguished
leaders of religious thought whose en-
thasissm and devotion TO the relief Of
suffering have made them the originators
and directors Of this crusade Of %enlighten-
meut 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 their wonderfuI successes
In bis first article DR.. Cabot says this:
sScientfe, rational mind cure has been
used In America in a systematic way
ply sicians fought shy Of 1t for a long
In my opinion. good reasons. One of the
most important of these reasons lay in
thefact that Christian Scientists and other
unorthodox schools Of healing were al
ready In the field and In competition with
mon. ~ ncI,. 49,. -
.Tokuggest In any way that there might
be truth IN these foolish and unreasonable
systems7has 'seerned impossible to the
Af1eftc3n physician. In Europe on the
othet hand, where there has been no
movement among the laity, where psy-
chotherapy has been wholly in the hands
Of physicians, ite scientific and reason
aby6 sides have been developed, while
We In America have sat by and watched