Mental Medicine: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Medical Psychology

Warren Felt Evans

• Publisher: Paeroa House
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781779796226
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

In 1873, a revolutionary voice emerged from the American frontier of mental healing, challenging everything the medical establishment believed about the relationship between mind and body. Warren Felt Evans, a pioneering thinker who dared to bridge the chasm between spiritual insight and scientific rigor, presents a groundbreaking exploration that would forever change how we understand the healing power of consciousness itself. Mental Medicine unveils the profound secrets of psychological therapeutics with startling clarity and unprecedented depth. Evans masterfully weaves together philosophical wisdom, practical methodology, and compelling case studies to reveal how thought, emotion, and belief directly influence physical health and recovery. This isn't merely theoretical speculation—it's a comprehensive system that demonstrates how mental states can be deliberately cultivated and directed to promote healing, restore vitality, and transform suffering into wellness. Through carefully reasoned arguments and vivid illustrations, Evans exposes the invisible forces that govern human health, offering readers a complete framework for understanding how consciousness operates as both cause and cure in the realm of disease and recovery. Modern readers seeking authentic insights into mind-body healing will discover an intellectual treasure that predates and informs contemporary approaches to holistic medicine, psychosomatic treatment, and therapeutic psychology. Evans provides practical tools for harnessing mental power while maintaining scientific credibility—a rare combination that makes this work invaluable for healthcare practitioners, students of consciousness studies, and anyone fascinated by the untapped potential of human mental faculties. This foundational text offers genuine wisdom for our current era's renewed interest in integrative healing approaches, delivering both historical perspective and timeless principles that remain strikingly relevant for today's health challenges.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PREFACE.
• CHAPTER I.—THE GIFT AND ART OF HEALING.
• CHAPTER II.—QUALIFICATIONS OF THE PSYCHOPATHIC PRACTITIONER.
• CHAPTER III.—CONDITIONS OF THE PATIENT FAVORABLE TO A CURE.
• CHAPTER IV.—THE CONSCIOUS IMPRESSIBLE STATE.
• CHAPTER V.—HOW TO INDUCE THE IMPRESSIBLE STATE.
• CHAPTER VI.—MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LIMITATIONS TO ITS ABUSE
• CHAPTER VII.—AUTO-MAGNETISM; OR, SELF-HEALING.
• CHAPTER VIII.—PHRENO-MAGNETISM AND ITS USE IN MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
• CHAPTER IX.—NERVOUS SENSITIVENESS AND INHARMONIOUS INFLUENCES.
• CHAPTER X.—THE DUALITY OF THE MIND AND BODY, AND THE POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DISTINCTION IN THE PSYCHIC AND MAGNETIC FORCES OF THE ORGANISM.
• CHAPTER XI.—THE BRAIN AND PSYCHIC AND NERVE CENTRES.
• CHAPTER XII.—EFFECT OF THE PSYCHOPATHIC TREATMENT OF THE SPINE AND SPINAL NERVES.
• CHAPTER XIII.—THE APPLICATION OF THE PSYCHIC AND MAGNETIC FORCE TO THE EPIGASTRIUM, AND THE NATURE AND CURE OF NERVOUS DISEASES.
• CHAPTER XIV.—THE ABDOMINAL MUSCLES AND THE MECHANICAL DISPLACEMENT OF THE INTERNAL ORGANS
• CHAPTER XV.—CONDUCTORS AND THEIR USE IN MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
• CHAPTER XVI.—THE AGENT IN THE PSYCHOPATHIC TREATMENT, AND ITS RELATION TO THE VITAL FORCE.
• CHAPTER XVII.—INANIMATE OBJECTS AND THEIR USE IN THE CURE OF DISEASE.
• CHAPTER XVIII.—THE LAW OF SYMPATHY IN ITS APPLICATION TO THE CURE OF MENTAL AND BODILY DISEASE.
• CHAPTER XIX.—HOW TO AVOID EXHAUSTION AND IMBIBING OF THE DISEASED CONDITION OF THE PATIENT.
• CHAPTER XX.—POWER FROM ON HIGH, OR SPIRITUAL AID, NECESSARY TO SUCCESS IN THE CURE OF DISEASE BY MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY.
• CHAPTER XXI.—MISCELLANEOUS DIRECTIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE, INCLUDING THE METHOD OF A CORRECT DIAGNOSIS.
• CHAPTER XXII.—INSANITY AND ITS PSYCHOPATHIC TREATMENT.
• CHAPTER XXIII.—REMEDIES PARTLY MECHANICAL, PARTLY PSYCHOPATHIC.
• CHAPTER XXIV.—MENTAL MEDICINE, OR THE SANATIVE VALUE OF THE PSYCHIC FORCE.