Psychotherapy
Subtitle: mental elements in the treatment of disease
By: by Edward Wyllys Taylor ...
Series: Harvard health talks
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1926
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Mental healing.; Therapeutics, Suggestive.
Description: The medical profession has been largely occupied with the physical problems underlying disease and its treatment. Surgery has flourished and attracted men of high intellectual attainment, because it has produced results of a very definite and easily comprehensible character, whereas medicine, in the narrower meaning, has lagged somewhat behind in popular estimation, because its results are less tangible and spectacular, and less open to popular understanding. The aim of modern psychotherapy is to establish principles of mental reaction, which may be generally applied, in the study of individual cases. To understand the present situation it is essential to trace in rough outline the strange vagaries of the past centuries, and to see wherein our present-day ideas have had their inception. - p. 9-17.