South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-19
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NA~1-~oI u ders?
gggSSa%O In the Phipps Psychi-
atric Clinic, at Baltimore,
the theory Of DR.. Sigmund Freud, the en-
inent German scientist, that the dream is
Of actual significance, and that it may be
regarded as a symptom and so analysed
for therapeutic purposes, is being prac-
tically worked out.
The Phipps Psychiatric Clinic is prob
ably the most perfectly equipped institu-
ton Of its kind in the world. Its estab-
lishment is due to the generosity of Mr..
Henry Phipps, of Pittsburg, who. moved
by the dark picture of many institutions
for the care Of persons suffering from
mental LESSONS, offered to Johns Hopkins
University the money to build and main
tain a clinic whose purpose should be the
development of science in relation to the
durable forms Of disorders of the mind.
Therefore the Phipps clinic was estab-
lished, a luxurious place which looks like
a very beautiful private estate. The
observation room resembles an unusually
large and handsome drawing room, but it
is none the less On observatory, for cum
ningly concealed by the mural decorations
are innumerable points Of secret observa-
ton from which the patients may be re-
garded There is a charming theatre. a
gymnasium, beautiful gardens, every sort
of provision for the pleasure and varied
life of the patient. Most interesting of
all the features of this wonderful institu-
a.. Il, ,.rsr,
up the dreams of the patients. A very
comfortable chair is placed beside the bed
of each patient, because il is sometimes
necessary for a physician to spend the
night in it. 1t is the duty of this physi-
clan Immediately on the awakening of the
patient to get from him the story of his
dreams of the night. Before the patient
has had a moment for forgetting before
any of those singular obsessions which
may possess him in his waking hours have
been permitted TO assert themselves, the
physician leans forward, pad and pencil
in hand, and asks in calm and friendly
fashion -
What did you dream, old fellow"
He must not weary should the dream
recording of a single detail. Everything
counts in dream analyses, and it is dream
anal-zas which the modern scientists
hope to link with the psychic cOncatena-
ton which must be followed backward
from the starting point of the pathOlog-
ical idea which possesses the patient to
the germ from which the idea sprang.
So the dream analyst sits beside the
bed of the patient and faithfully gathers
the fragments of the dream as Oppor-
tunity offers. Suppressed desires, unful-
filled wishes, which are not even recOg-
nized consciously; aspirations, unac-
knowledged passions, find their avenue
Of expression. II is believed, through the
medium of dreams. That is why the
dreams of the patient are so important
In the analysis of his condition That
the repression of these hidden longings,
wishes, desires, has contributed 10 the
disturbed condition of the patient is the
basis on which the analysis of the dream
Is conceived to be of primary significance.
81 must insist" says Or. Freud. that
che dream actually has significance and
that a scientific procedure in dream inter
probation is possible. l have long been
occupied with the solution of certain
psychological structures in hysterical pho
bias, compulSive ideas and the like for
therapeutic purposes. Where il has been
possible to trace such pathologic idea
back TO the elements in the psychic life OF
the patient 10 which il owes its origin this
idea has crumbled away and the patient
has been relieved of IT. In the course of
these psycho-analy teal studies l happened
upon the dream Interpretation. Ny pa
tents after they had informed me of all
ideas which came to them in connection
with given theme related their dreams.
and thus taught me that a dream may be
linked with the psychic concentration
which must be followed backward into the
memory"
Or. Freud tells Of his experiences in the
analysis Of dreams in his work The IN
depreciation Of Dreams"
After the person who has been assigned
10 gather the dream fragments of the pa
tient al the Phipps clinic has made full
record he hastens with it % the office Of
the clinic and submits it to the considera-
ton Of Dr. Adolph Meyer, the head Of the
clinic, who is acknowledged 20 be one Of
the greatest psychatrists in America. DR..
Meyer, who is responsible for the introduc-
ton Of dream analysis into the clinic. is a
small man with an irritable little black