Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . g which he calls sentimentallogic. This might very accurately be translated a heart-to-heart addresses himself to the patient in such a fashion as wins the patientstrust while it convinces his reason. Functional nervous diseases, as we have seen, are caused by falsemental representations. To cure them, new habits must be formed. Thepatient must be educated, Professor Dubois tells us, to change these erro-neous opinions for correct ones. He points out that this may be accom-plished either by aut
Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . g which he calls sentimentallogic. This might very accurately be translated a heart-to-heart addresses himself to the patient in such a fashion as wins the patientstrust while it convinces his reason. Functional nervous diseases, as we have seen, are caused by falsemental representations. To cure them, new habits must be formed. Thepatient must be educated, Professor Dubois tells us, to change these erro-neous opinions for correct ones. He points out that this may be accom-plished either by authority or persuasion. Authority may remove the bod-ily difficulty at once and forever, while it leaves the first cause sole way to convince the patient of the unreliability of his false impres-sion, Professor Dubois points out, is by reason and logic. This, he says, in nowise excludes the use of physical means, but adds that in functional ner-vous diseases, since the mind has played the chief role in the productionof the ailment, the principal task is psychotherapeutic. [4].
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