The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-06-15

i gently may be obytous, and Jew;
inractical adjustments IN 9e pauenrs
Il life may be all that IL necessary y
a complete cure In other cases tne
Il source Of the trouble IS ooscuze. ana
Il the psychitrist may have to study the
L Istienf,s dreams-probe into the;
4 nrs1eries Of his subjective mind-be-
Il fore he can make correct diagno-
4 This. for example, is compare
4 lively simple case Patient Smith IS
4 happily and buoyanLiy on his mental
balance Smith tells the doctor OF
lcollapsible umbrella he has Invented
that may be folded up and put into
4 the pocket It Is wonderful affair
i that will monopolize the umbrella
trade Of the world He has been Of
Tered 5000. 900 for it, but has de-
clined the oner.
The unframed dealer with the men
tally deranged might draw the conclu-
sion that here was man who had
lost his mind in attempts TO perfect
inventions and the worry that thisi
task occasioned- The psychiatr1sti
isees an entirely different cause for!
4smith's delusions. smith. he pre-
ceives, almost Immediately. is meS-i
tai deficit He has always been def-t
Ecient, has been failure In every-i
| thing he has undertakes, has grown
Ito tell these fantastic stores as an
| apology for his failures His case isl
la parallel to that of the coward whol
hcontantly boasts of the battles he hasl
fought, the man. scorned OF women
twho brags of his conquests- Subse-l
| Quent study of the case of Smith
confirms this diagnosis, and he isl
4 handled accordinelv
! Mrs. Jones. strong. wholesome
handsome woman, is quite wildly In
sane. From her rawlings It IS gath
/ Tered that she has lost the ahections|
Of her husband, who now pays little
attention to his home life. She does
not love her husband and TINS 10:
lis not the occasion of her insanity.
/; The JoneseS are working people, and
there lives nearby anotner man who
| Is most attractive to Mrs. Jones, max
ing the eternal triangle But she is
a good woman and yields no jot tol
her infatuation. This develops sit
uation, the battling with which
| breaks down her mind. Most insanel
people become SO because they are
forced to face situaS.on that is TOO
hard for them.
But the psychiatrist must save this
estimable woman to society and her
children. To do so he probes deeply
into her mind and into her past He
resorts to one Of his chief assistants,
the dreams she may tell him As al
scientit he holds that dreams are al
natural phenomenon and that they,
| therefore, have a meaning It IS his
| business TO be able to interpret
/ dreams and he has found the key to
their actual significance.
4 Mrs. Jones tells Of dreaming of her
4 nor ~, M
and of her father. Probably the
| father IS present in more OF the
\ dreams than Is anybody else The
|; psychiatrist knows that the frequency
/ with which an individual appears in
4 ones dreams is good measure Of
the regard in which he is held He,
\ therefore. questions Mrs. Jones about
her father and learns that the latter
/ has been the dominating influence in
her life. She has loved her father
i dearly, but he is dead. The scientist
4 realizes that, If the father were still
l present and Mrs. Jones might lavish
the wealth of an afectionate disposi-
Il ton <pon him, her problem would
!. probably be solved.
Il He seeks substitute. Mrs Jones
] has tendency toward religion This
lis encouraged She is brought to
4 crafty her desire for loving, which
i was once bestowed on QeE 4dIueI, ana
later on the man of the triangle, by
placing her affections upon God. 1t
is but a little while until her cure is
i enected-
Brown suffered from the mania of
self-desruction- The psychiatrist led
him to talk about himself and 1usthe
course Of the conversation asked him
what medicine his doctor had been
giving him.
He has been giving me-" said
: Brown, some half-grain tablets of
quinine-no, mean calomel-
The specialist in mind operations
hit upon this mistake OF saying Quin-
inc when he meant calomel, as clue
: There was some reason why qulnine
came into the patients mind He was
lied to recite the whole history of his
case and told of having gone on a
trip to Panama at the recommends
} Etion of his physician some years ear
1ier- He had stayed but one night on
: 1.-The Isthmus, but, when closely Ques-
I1ioned, he confessed to very des-
lperate Irritation with trained nurse
under romantic surrounding. and
LOT her having given him Quinine to
Ipreyent his acquiring malaria The
ifact that quinine stuck in his mind
indicated that the Irritation had been
Important in his scheme of things.
probably he was an habitual dirt ano
lprobably this fact had lead to compli-
lcations-
Two years after this first trip. the
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