Identifier: psychotherapycou2190park (find matches)
Title: Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion.
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Parker, William Belmont, 1871-1934, editor
Subjects: Mental healing Mental health Psychotherapy Mental Healing Mental Health Psychotherapy
Publisher: New York : Centre Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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to retain them.It seems as if through certain surrounding conditions an impressionis made which reaches the more fixed and automatic part of thenervous system so that it is no longer merely stored for use when itis called for by consciousness, but it appears as a reflex act, one im-pression bringing it up without any will being exercised. In nearly all my cases the condition appears to have had an emo-tional origin. The shock of the sudden death of a relative causedone patient to fear his wife would die; another dreaded travelingafter being frightened by a drunken man in a railway carriage, etc.Although in some instances the emotional element changed its char-acter, and in all became greatly intensified, it was certainly gener-ally associated with the commencement of the original trouble. Marce says: In a predisposed person, feeble of character, en-dowed with keen sensibility, a word, an emotion, a fear, a desire,leaves one day a profound impression, the thought born in this man- (54)
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Q^gX^ OBSESSIONS AND THEIR TREATMENT ner presents itself to the mind in an importunate way, takes posses-sion of it, does not leave it, dominates all its conceptions; during thistime the individual may be conscious of all the absurdity, unreason-ableness, or criminality of this idea; the acts themselves soon con-form to those unhealthy preoccupations, and become absurd orextravagant. For example, one of my patients of a somewhat high-strung andemotional temperament, but otherwise healthy, had some trouble ofa sentimental nature and went to Paris for a short holiday. On theevening after his arrival he went to the theater with some friends.One of the actors played the part of an insane person. The ideainstantly came into my patients head that he himself was mad, and,when supping afterwards with his friends, he had the idea that theywere all mad. He recognized perfectly the absurdity of this, but atthe same time was quite unable to get rid of the obsession. He didnot sleep that night and

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