Psychotherapy

Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease

James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

• Publisher: Perlego
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9700000036450
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Pharmacology

This huge 1912 volume claims that its publication represents the "first time in the history of medicine that an attempt has been made to write a text-book of the whole subject of psychotherapy." This book consists of material gathered by the author for a series of lectures on psychotherapy at the Fordham University School of Medicine. It will be found in many ways to partake more of the nature of a course of lectures than a true text-book. Addressed to medical students and not specialists the language employed is as untechnical as possible, and, indeed, was meant as a rule to be such as young physicians might use to their patients for suggestion purposes. The place of psychotherapy in the past seemed so important to, and psychotherapeutics masqueraded under so many forms that an historical resume of its many phases appeared the best kind of an introduction to a book which pleads for more extensive and more deliberate use of psychotherapy in our time. The treatments are discussed for both physical and mental disorders. Other chapters on the status of psychotherapy in the history of medicine cover topics such as dualism, quackery, and faith. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).