The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-26
THINKS TALKING CURE RELIEVES
 TROUBLES

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.--Have you 9 multitude of troubles? Are you wor- ried?
 Get out from beneath the load of lyour troubles by the oral route. Tell your tale of woe to someone. Take the talking cure for the blues. | This advice comes all the way from Berlin and from Dr. Mag nus Hirschfield, who advocates this "cure" as an audible ventilation for the pestiferous tenants of the human mind.
 According to Dr. Hirschfield, your fanciful troubles will vanish and the real ones will diminish if you will but talk them off However, do not poster friends Talk to someone especially trained to listen to your woes and give you the advice you need, All this may be we'll enough, but it will seem to the average person that pr. Hirschfield's theory has a flaw in that it excludes one talking to ones friends. Confiding in real friends is sweet relief. It has all ways been a boon for the worried man or woman who had real friend to go to.
 Dr. Aristine P. Munn- -Recht, dean of women at New York University a graduate physician and a lecturer on psychology. believes the talking cure for the blues is practical and bene- fiscial but that one should carry troubles to friends rather than to a paid listener.
 DR. MUNN-RECHT's OPINION
 "Thn element of friendship is vital" she insists.
 "Jf one has two or three friends to listen, no one need carry load Of petty mental cares which, accumu- lating from day to day, destroy mo- rale and break us down completely.
 'I say two or three friends so one ] will not be unduly strained.
 'T can find that many, and so can anyone else.
 "Of course. this seems to be one development of the mental cathar- sis of Freud and it comes in agree able form because it places the en- phasis on everyday worries and not on sex troubles.
 "It is a safe and sane panacea. Ct course, the deep hidden complexes require more profound study. They need a psycho-analyst
 "Rrt this 'hot-air treatment which the Berlin doctor advocates. will pre- vent new comDlexes from being formed through constant repression of the emotions and will leave no un- pleasant effect.
 "Fmotions expressed through con- versation before they take on the element of time are not dangerous.
 "Let me explain: Suppose someone is worried because he has hard time getting along with someone in an office or in a class. He talks it out to some friend That puts the worry in the past immediately. It 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 it.
 l LEAVES NO BRAIN GROOVES 1 Talking it out will make no grooves in the brain from the worry bubbling within. I won't say such repression could cause insanity. That is caused by two things-change in brain structure and change in ideas. Disorders in which ideas change are benefited in some cases by psycho- analysis and in others by talking it out
 "As for telling things to people, some of them are like vegetables. State anything to them and they never take it in. Often people not leading strenuous lives cannot un- dcrs+and these trials of busy day.
 con the other hand, if 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.
 Ut is the petty affairs of life that break folk down, and it is no effort finding someone to listen to a recital of them. Ever since that time when was a student at John Hopkins University, and sick in a hospital bed there, and cried out at night 1 .l,sa