Excerpt from The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders: The Psychoneuroses and Their Moral Treatment My book has been well noticed by reviewers, and has had an encouraging reception both from the best physicians and from the public at large. Although my views on psychological treatment may have left indifferent, or even shocked, certain professors who were fixed in their dogmatic views, they have found many warm supporters among experienced practitioners in towns and country who know so well how to keep up with the times. A second German edition of the book appeared at the same time as the third French edition. The excellent English translation published in New York from the pen of Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe and Dr. William A. White has also found numerous readers, being now in its sixth edition. This means that the ideas here set forth are in the air, and that in attempting to epitomize them in didactic form I have done nothing more than express concisely the thoughts of many of my confreres of different countries.

This was my object, and the support they have given me in letters, their reports to medical journals, and personal conversations I have had with them constitute a much-valued encouragement. It would have been astonishing had the approbation been unanimous, and it is my duty to reply to various objections and criticisms that have been made of me. Some have insinuated that I may have exaggerated what one calls "the influence of the mind over the body" and have shown from a therapeutic standpoint a too great optimism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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