Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-13
CURE
FINE REMEDY
FOR TROUBLE
Tell Your Tale of Woe to
Some One and Get Away
From Worry.
CURES MENTAL TROUBLE

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Have you a
multitude Of troubles Are you wor-
ried?
Get out from beneath the load Of your
troubles by the oral route. Tell your
tale Of woe to some one. Take the talk
ing cure for the blues.
This advice comes all the way from
Berlin and from one DR.. Magnus Hirsch-
field, who advocates this cure as an
audible ventilation for the pestiferous
tenants of the human mind.
According to Dr. Hirschdeld, your fan
cffuI troubles will vanish and the real
ones viii diminish if you will but talk
them off. However, do not poster friends.
Talk to some one especially trained to
listen to your woes and give you the ad-
vice you need.
All this may be well enough, but 1t
will seem to the average person that Or.
Hfrschfelds' theory has flaw in that
it excludes one talking to ones friends
Con6dine in real friends is sweet re-
lief. 1t has always been boon Tor the
worried man or woman who had real
friend to go to.
Or. Aristine P. Mum Recht, dean OF
women at New York University, a gradu-
ate physician and a lecturer on psychol-
oev. believes the talking cure for the
blues is practical and beneficial, out
that one should carry troubles 10 1rlehus
rather than to paid listener
DIR. MUNN-RECHTS
OPINIONS.
she insists.
"If one has two of three friends to
listen. no one need carry q load Of petty
mental cares which, accommodating from
day to day, destroy morale and DfeaN
us down completely.
az say two or three friends so one
will not be unduly strained.
81 can find that many, ana SO can
any one else. u
"Of course, this seems to be one de-
velopment of the mental 'catharsis' OF
Freud. and it comes in agreeable form
because it places the emphasis on every
day worries and not on sex troubles.
at is a safe and sane panacea. VI
course. the deep hidden completes require
more profound study. They need
psycho-analyst- t,.,
@Rut this 'hot-air treatment which
the Berlin doctor advocates, Will prevent
new completes from being formed
through constant repression OF the emo
lions and win leave no unpleasant erect
Emotions expressed through CONVEX
time are not dangerous.
''Iset me explain: Suppose some one IS
worried because he has hard time get
ting along with some one in an Office OF
in n class. He talks 1t out to some
friend. That puts the worry IN the past
Immediately. 1t is not bottled up for
long period OF time, seething and Ter
mAnting in the mind, from the date When
the trouble began till the person breaks
down from thinking about 1t,
"Talking it out VIII make no groves IN
the hrain from the worry bubbling with
in. won't say such repression could
cause insanity. That is caused by two
tbings-change in brain structure and
change in ideas. Disorders in which
ideas change are benefited in some cases
nv psychologists and in others by talk
Ing it out.
CAS- for telling things to people, some
of them are like vegetables State any
thing to them and they never take 1t In
Often people not leading strenuous lives
cannot understand these trials Of busy
day.
on. political leaders for instance, should
ever begin to tell each other their trou-
bIes the day would not be long enough.
Both would break from the strain
at is the petty affairs of life that
break folks down, and 1t is no effort
finding some one to listen to recital OF
them. Ever since that time when l was
student at Johns Hopkins University.
and sick in a hospital bed, there, and
cried out at night something which had
bothered me during the day, I have told
my worries to people. 1t will come out
In some form, anyhow.
'The sympathetic ear Is imperative,
through.
"a wife whose husband gets angry
because he wanted toast for breakfast,
when she gave him rolls, can tell that
to another wife who Unsuccessfuly served
toast to a man who desired pancakes.
And so on.
Bad coffee and hard-bolled eggs that
should have been soft are the little
worries Of many women's days.
But when this DR.. Hirshfield says that
there should be more sex enlightenment
I believe he is at sea. There is undue
stress on sex in these matters In the
life of the normal average person it plays
q slight role"