Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-10-25
Scientists to Study Inc Mind

hored," says DIR. Cabot. "scienc" the
association of the science and min
cure seemed absurd" DIR. Dubois u
the practice Of psychotherapy extend
ing over a period Of twenty years ma
ACCOMPLISHED wonderful cures Of dis
ease by appealing to and aronsing II
a purely scientific way the moral ma
ture. His work Is acknowledged L
rest upon a scientific basis as demon
strable as the known results OF cheni
ical and biological treatment OF dis
ease. Other celebrated European
scientists. who have met with grea
success are Oppenheim, Freud ant
Bernheim. and In England Lloyt
Tuckey and John Milne Bramwell
the latter held TO be the greatest Eng
lish authority on hypnotism.
For the first time the two profes
sions OF medical science and religion
are consciously and definitely working
together. This is the great error o.
our day In the treatment OF the hui
man body" said Plato $500 years ago
that physicians separate the SOU
from the ludy." This statement
strikingly trne now as then. has been
accepted in this new movement and
DR.. Cabot in his first paper Celebrates
the point az follows: Il have dehnd
psychOtherapy as The attempt to help
the sick by mental, moral and spirit
ual methods. These methods overlap
and bend into each other indeed, j
think it is proven beyond doubt that
Il is unwise to try to separate them
unwise. that is, to try 10 distinguish
persons mind from his soul or
his intellect from his moral life.
by any hard and fast lines.
Realizing, as we do, that mental
activity merges constantly into moral
and religious activity, we have NOT
hesitated here In America to associ-
ate the man Of science and the man
of religion-doctor and minister-in
most favorable form Of cooperation
for the good of the sick"
The association OF the doctor and
the minister is illustrated In the
Emmanuel Movement" In Boston
where extraordinary cures have been
made. The work of Bishop Samuel
Fa,lows In Chicago has been remark
ably successful. In both instances
cures have been wrought through the
intelligent application OF psychoter'
apy. Among those who will represent
the religious world in its union with
the scientific world through contItbu-
lions to the course Of reading are
Bishop FallOws. Rev. Loring w. Bat
ten. Professor OF Old Testament Ii
tera:ure and Interpretation Of the
General Theological Seminary, DR.. l..
W. Beyan, Associate Editor of the
Episcopal Divinity School of PhiladeE
phia, and Professor Geer. Of the Hart
ford Theological Seminary, Rev. Ly-
man P. Powell, Rector Of st. Johns
Church, Northampton. and Rev. Al
bert B. Shields. recurring on psyche
therapy in Tufts College.
DR.. Calot, in outlining what psyche
therapy is also is careful to state
with some force what It is not. He
differentiates psycho;herapy and its
advocates from Christian Scientists,
the New Thought people, the Faith
Healers, and the thousand and one
other schools which have In common
the disregard of medical science and
of all the accumulated knowledge OF
the past. But in this attempt to diss'
seminate accurate knowledge I. is nc
part Of the plan to var Upon various
cults which have been established by
the laity.
"Psychotherapeutics Is not a cure
ALL" declares DR.. Cabot. 1T Is not
artistic or scolarly success issue out
going to reform all sinners. or make ar
Of few hypnotic seances. There Is
no good reason to suppose that psy-
chotherspy can. by itself. reform char
acter or cure organic disease. 1t may
aid In the reconstruction Of character
and Il can do a great deal towards
curing disease OF the type known to
the physician rs observation-disclosures.