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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. Walsh · Public domain text

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Author
James J. Walsh (1865–1942)
Language
English
Subjects
Mental healing
Length
464,313 words · about 32 h 31 min
Sections
117 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (117)
  1. Opening about 2 min
  2. Preface about 4 min
  3. Introduction about 14 min
  4. I. GREAT PHYSICIANS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY about 31 min
  5. II. UNCONSCIOUS PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS about 16 min
  6. III. GENUINE REMEDIES AND SUGGESTIVE EXAGGERATION about 24 min
  7. IV. SIGNATURES AND PSYCHOTHERAPY about 7 min
  8. V. PSEUDO-SCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALING about 19 min
  9. VI. QUACKERY AND MIND CURES about 18 min
  10. VII. NOSTRUMS AND THE HEALING POWER OF SUGGESTION about 18 min
  11. VIII. AMULETS, TALISMANS, CHARMS about 7 min
  12. IX. DETERRENT THERAPEUTICS about 16 min
  13. X. INFLUENCE OF THE PERSONALITY IN THERAPEUTICS about 21 min
  14. XI. FAITH CURES about 13 min
  15. I. INFLUENCE OF MIND ON BODY about 24 min
  16. II. UNFAVORABLE MENTAL INFLUENCE about 17 min
  17. III. THE INFLUENCE OF BODY ON MIND about 21 min
  18. IV. THE MECHANISM OF THE INFLUENCE OF MIND ON BODY about 19 min
  19. V. BRAIN CELLS AND MENTAL OPERATIONS about 20 min
  20. VI. UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION about 15 min
  21. VII. DISTANT MENTAL INFLUENCE about 18 min
  22. VIII. SECONDARY PERSONALITY about 9 min
  23. IX. HYPNOTISM about 28 min
  24. I. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE INDIVIDUAL PATIENT about 4 min
  25. II. THE MORNING HOURS about 16 min
  26. III. THE DAY'S WORK about 20 min
  27. IV. THE MIDDLE OP THE DAY about 5 min
  28. V. THE LEISURE HOURS about 11 min
  29. I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY about 18 min
  30. I. SUGGESTION about 11 min
  31. II. EXERCISE about 24 min
  32. III. POSITION about 15 min
  33. IV. TRAINING about 11 min
  34. V. OCCUPATION OF MIND about 15 min
  35. VI. DIVERSION OF MIND--HOBBIES about 13 min
  36. VII. HABIT about 15 min
  37. VIII. PAIN about 15 min
  38. I. INFLUENCE OF MIND ON FOOD DIGESTION about 20 min
  39. II. INDIGESTION AND UNFAVORABLE STATES OF MIND about 11 min
  40. III. PSYCHIC TREATMENT OF DIGESTIVE CONDITIONS about 21 min
  41. IV. APPETITE about 15 min
  42. V. CONSTIPATION about 25 min
  43. VI. NEUROTIC INTESTINAL AFFECTIONS about 18 min
  44. VII. MUCO-MEMBRANOUS COLITIS about 11 min
  45. VIII. OBESITY about 17 min
  46. IX. WEIGHT AND GOOD FEELING about 13 min
  47. X. VAGUE ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORTS--LOOSE KIDNEY about 20 min
  48. I. THE HEART AND MENTAL INFLUENCE about 16 min
  49. II. DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS IN HEART DISEASE about 14 min
  50. III. CARDIAC NEUROSES about 18 min
  51. IV. CARDIAC PALPITATION AND GASTRO-INTESTINAL DISTURBANCE about 18 min
  52. V. ANGINA PECTORIS about 10 min
  53. VI. TACHYCARDIA about 6 min
  54. VII. BRADYCARDIA about 5 min
  55. I. COUGHS AND COLDS about 15 min
  56. II. TUBERCULOSIS about 33 min
  57. III. NEUROTIC ASTHMA AND COGNATE CONDITIONS about 12 min
  58. IV. DUST ASTHMA, SEASONAL CATARRH, HAY FEVER about 13 min
  59. V. DYSPNEA--CAT AND HORSE ASTHMA about 11 min
  60. I. PAINFUL JOINT CONDITIONS--PSEUDO-RHEUMATISM. [Footnote 33] about 19 min
  61. II. OLD INJURIES AND SO-CALLED RHEUMATISM about 5 min
  62. III. MUSCULAR PAINS AND ACHES about 16 min
  63. IV. OCCUPATION MUSCLE AND JOINT PAINS about 11 min
  64. V. PAINFUL ARM AND TRUNK CONDITIONS about 5 min
  65. VI. LUMBAGO AND SCIATICA about 18 min
  66. VII. PAINFUL KNEE CONDITIONS about 9 min
  67. VIII. FOOT TROUBLES about 22 min
  68. IX. ARTHRITIS DEFORMANS about 17 min
  69. X. COCCYGODYNIA about 4 min
  70. I. MENTAL HEALING IN GYNECOLOGY about 9 min
  71. II. PSYCHIC STATES IN MENSTRUATION about 7 min
  72. III. AMENORRHEA about 9 min
  73. IV. DYSMENORRHEA about 16 min
  74. V. MENORRHAGIA about 8 min
  75. VI. THE MENOPAUSE about 6 min
  76. I. SUGGESTION IN OBSTETRICS about 20 min
  77. II. MATERNAL IMPRESSIONS about 14 min
  78. I. PROSTATISM about 11 min
  79. II. SEXUAL NEUROSES about 24 min
  80. III. SEXUAL HABITS about 21 min
  81. I. PSYCHOTHERAPY IN SKIN DISEASES about 12 min
  82. I. DIABETES about 10 min
  83. II. GRAVES' DISEASE about 17 min
  84. I. PSYCHOTHERAPY OF ORGANIC NERVOUS DISEASES about 14 min
  85. II. CEREBRAL APOPLEXY about 27 min
  86. III. LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA about 16 min
  87. IV. PARESIS about 11 min
  88. V. EPILEPSY AND PSEUDO-EPILEPSY about 18 min
  89. VI. PARALYSIS AGITANS about 10 min
  90. VII. HEADACHE about 22 min
  91. I. NERVOUS WEAKNESS (NEURASTHENIA) about 16 min
  92. II. CHOREA about 6 min
  93. III. TICS about 15 min
  94. IV. STUTTERING, ATAXIA IN TALKING, WALKING, WRITING, ETC about 22 min
  95. V. TREMORS about 13 min
  96. I. PSYCHO-NEUROSES (HYSTERIA) about 28 min
  97. I. MENTAL INCAPACITY (PSYCHASTHENIA) about 16 min
  98. II. HALLUCINATIONS about 21 min
  99. III. DREADS about 40 min
  100. IV. HEREDITY about 19 min
  101. V. PREMONITIONS about 16 min
  102. VI. PERIODICAL DEPRESSION about 26 min
  103. VII. INSOMNIA about 34 min
  104. VIII. SOME TROUBLES OF SLEEP about 15 min
  105. IX. DREAMS about 24 min
  106. X. DISORDERS OF MEMORY about 25 min
  107. XI. PSYCHIC CONTAGION about 15 min
  108. I. ALCOHOLISM about 34 min
  109. II. DRUG ADDICTIONS about 16 min
  110. III. SUICIDE about 35 min
  111. IV. GRIEF about 15 min
  112. V. DOUBTING about 16 min
  113. VI. RESPONSIBILITY AND WILL POWER about 19 min
  114. I. PSYCHOTHERAPY IN OLD-TIME SURGERY about 8 min
  115. II. MENTAL INFLUENCE BEFORE OPERATION about 11 min
  116. III. MENTAL INFLUENCE IN ANESTHESIA about 14 min
  117. IV. MENTAL INFLUENCE AFTER OPERATION about 1 h 28 min

The opening of Preface

"Prefaces are a great waste of time," said Francis Bacon, "and, though they seem to proceed of modesty, they are bravery." In spite of this deterring expression of the Lord Chancellor, the author ventures to write a short apologia pro libro suo. Five years ago he began at Fordham University School of Medicine a series of lectures on Psychotherapy. This book consists of material gathered for these lectures. It will be found in many ways to partake more of the nature of a course of lectures than a true text-book. In this it follows French rather than English or American precedent. Its relation to lectures makes it more diffuse than the author would have wished, but this is offered as an explanation, not an excuse. 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.

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