South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-01-13
TALK And FORGET,
SCIENTIFIC PLAN
Doctor Endorses German Ply
sician's Idea to Relieve
Mental Troubles.


worried?
Get out from beneath the load OF
your troubles BY the oral route.
Tell your tale or woe 10 someone
Take the talking cure for the blues.
This advice comes all the way
from Berlin and from one Or. Mag
nus Hlrschfeld. who advocates this /
"cure" az an audible ventilation for
the pesuferous tenants or the hu-
man mind.
According 20 DR. Hirschfeld. your
fanciful troubles VIII vanish and the
real ones viii diminish II you viii
but talk them on However. do not
poster friends. Talk 90 someone es-
pociaIly trained TO listen 90 your
woes and give you the advice you
need
All this may be well enough. but
81 viii seem % the average person
that DR. EIirschdeld's theory mas
flaw In that lt excludes one taking
20 ones friends. Conhding In real
friends IS a sweet relief. It has al
ways been a boon for the worried
man or woman who had real
friend TO go to-
Dr. Aristne r. Munn-Recht, dean
90 women at New York university. a
graduate physician and a lecturer ON
psychology. believes the talking cure
Tor the blues O. practical and be1e-
fetal. but that one should carry
troubles 20 friends rather than 10
paid listener.
DR.. Munn-Rccht's Opinions.
"The element Of friendship is
vital" she insists.
"If one has two or three friends
10 listen. no one need carry a load
Of petty mental cares which accu-
muIaung from day 70 day, destroy
morale and break Us down COM
pletely.
IL say two or three friends so one
viii not be unduly strained.
FL can find that many. and 30 can
anyone else.
"Or course. this seems TO be one
development Of the mental cathar-
sis of Freud, and IL comes in agree
able form because it places the en-
phas.s on everyday worries and not
On sex troubles.
ut ls q safe and sane panacea. OF
course. the deep hidden compleXe,
require moe profound study. They
need a psycho-anaiyst.
but this 'hOt-air treatment,
which the Berlin doctor advocates.
viii prevent new completes from
being formed through constant re-
preston Of the emotions and will
leave no unpleasant effect.
Emotions expressed through con-
versatiou before they take on the
element OF time are not dangerous.
Let me explain: Suppose some
one is worried because he has
hard time getting along with some
one i'm an office or I'm a class. He
talks 10 out % some friends. That
puts the worry in the past i'm
mediateiy. 1t is not bottled up for
@ long period Of time. seething and
fermenting in the mind, from the
date when the trouble began till the
person breaks down from thinking
about &c.
Leaves No Brain Grooves.
Talking it out viii make nc
grooves en- the brain from the worry
bubbliEg within. 7 won't say such
repression could cause insanity. That
f. caused by two thiugs-change in
brain structure and change in ideas
Disorders In which ideas change are
BENEFITED iu some cases by psyche
analysis and IN others by talking il
OUT
As for telling things to people,
some of them are like vegetables.
state anything TO them and they
never take fl in often people not
leading strenuous lives cannot un-
dcrstand these trials OF a busy day.
"Ou the other hand. II two active
women. political leaders for Instance.
should ever begin TO tell each other
their troubles the day would not be
long enough. Both would break from
the strain.
1T is the petty affairs of life that
break folk down and IL is no effort
finding someone TO listen 60 a recital
az them. Ever since that time when
I was student at Johns Hopkins
university. and sick iu hospital bed
there. and cried out az night some
thing which had bothered me during
the day. I have told my worries TO
people. It will come out in some
form. anyhow.
'Thc sympathetic ear is impera-
tive though
"A wife whose husband gets angry
because ne wanted toast for break
fast. when she gave him rolls, can
tell that to another wife who UNI
successfully served toast to a man
who desired pancakes And so on.
bad coffee and hard boiled eggs
that should have been soft are the
little worries of many women's days
"But whom this DR.. Hirschfeld
saws that there should be more sex
ealiEhtenmont believe he is at sea
There is undue stress on sex In these
matters In the life OF the normal
avera &c person il plays a slight
role"