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REV. c. H. DOLE ON
PSyCHOANALYT|C IDEA
Challenges Some OF the Teach
ings and Practices Of the
Present Day.

"Psychosnalytic Healing, It's Vice
George Henry Dole OF tho Church OF
tho New Jerusalem. last Sunday. and
since then It has been the pubject OF
much comment.
"Thou shalt therefore keep tho com
mendments, and the statutes. and the
Judgments. which ! command thcc
this day. TO do them" he said. And
the Lord will take away from thee oil
sickness. Deut. vii, 11-1E No mind IL
mt It's best or In perfect peace with
pain In tho body. We all want health.
We dread disease. Tho sure laws OF
health have become obscured, and
multitudes drift blndly hithcr and
thither with every wind OF schism.
heresy and fad that blows, like the
poor woman who spent all she had
on many physicians and grew not
better. but worse.
when Mesmcr discovered tho srt OF
mesmerism. people were carried away
In vain dreams OF n cure-all. and the
practice OF hypnotiam finally pro-
duced such DISASTROUS results In de-
stroying minds and undermining char
acter that laws were passed restrain
ing its use. Wheh FIRST invented. the
electric battery was supposed to have
such magic powers OF healing that IT
was applied 10 all manner of dlsea SEES
Likewise OF the X-ray and radium.
"Just at present great numbers OF
thinking people are nightly stirred
by the claims OF tho psychoanalyst.
There are those who promise for a
goodly fee to heal by psychoanalytlc
methods. Wo viii try to state in n
sentence the essence OF their theory
and practice. They claim that many
diseases have their origin in wrong
impressions made upon the subcon-
acious mind. some maintaining that
all diseases originate in states inn
pressed upon the subconscious mind
during tho first seven yenrs OF i'm
fancy and childhood. The normal de-
siros OF tho child have been violated +:
unnatural and disorderly impressions
= have been made upon the subconscious
mind. and these dlsorderly impressions
flow down TO the conscious mind and
cause disease In the body. Now II
the disorderly impression Is removed
from tho subconscious mind, the dis
ease will disappear. TO ascertain
what tho dlsorderly impression il. the
psychos nalyst gets the conf'dsncA Of
the patient, and by questions en-
deavors to discover the impression,
= made upon tho mind OF the patien
from earliest recollection. When tn,
event that caused the malicious i'm
IN,
IL found and confessed, then the con
scious mind II freed from tho mali
Enant unconscious influence, and tn
disease disappears. For example,
husbs nd punished his child His wifi
scolded him for so doing. In tn
y morning he awoke with his arm rigi,
. behind him. The psychoanalyst b.
persistent questioning, brought TO N
v sffiictcd man tho recollection thai
I whom seven years old, no struck hi
younger brother. who soon died @
brain fcvsr. His mother accused hir
OF causing tho death OF his littI
brother. and tod his arm behind hir
for week. When tho patient rs
o called this and told 1t TO tho analys
his arm Immediately became norma
lut ~ tTdL III UnDTeSFlU
T. upon the subconscious mind, unde
G nervous excitation, produced an ei
e feet in the conscious mind. whic
y fixed his arm behind him. Remov
II the cause from the subconscious min,
and the effect passes from the cor
Is scious mind. This is the essence {
A the healing theories OF a particula
N school OF psychoanalysts. This @
r its surface seems TO be, as elaine,
n strictly scientific. Indeed 1t seems
II. be orderly and useful. Thus far v
l. will not severely criticise the psych,
n analytic theory, though there are be
pr ter ways OF accomplishing the san
" results. But there are deductions ar
practices that should be utterly col
w demned.
70 1T is claimed that as impression
M upon the subconscious mind have sue
T. overwhelming power in the conscioi
AZ mind. we can, by certain method
plant suggestions there that will VOL
{ out desired results. The practice
known as auto suggestion. There a
=. individuals and large groups OF pc
w. pie who repeat over and over sue
:, sentences as these: There is no 81
N sickness, evil, or pain. 1 am divir
l shall have all power. Every d;
in every way 1 am growing bette
BY constant repetition OF such ha
o. fluctuations. they Stupefy the sense
or lull the rational faculties to sleep, al
st bring the whole mind into a deliriu
sr, OF phantasy. The practice is nothil
he other than the temperance of {
80 black arts Of the Egyptian magicia
" who did the same thing by repeati
m. their abracadabra until they broug
H." out their magical powers OF frenzy.
If Is form of self-mesmerism or ny
IN. notism The same sorcery is used
.e- teaching healing by saying over a
over, There is no sin, sickness, eN
y: or death
=" 1.-THE same erroneous principle q
he pears in New Thought. That appare
cures are rendered by these magic
be methods does not prove them to
MS good. The msgicians did all
ar miracles after Moses except one.
,s- deed cures are rendered by these va
9TH Gus forms OF hypnotism but alws
rv at tho expense Of the soul and souI
o" ness of the mind.
NJ Let us mako ii clear wherein al
suggestion, and the various forms
cure. They fail 10 acknowledge Il
the origin OF disease is in evil son
where. and that genuine cure can
,rk found and disease removed from
ed world only as evils are confessed