Annals of medical history . k, as wellas to clinical medicine and changed and added to methods ofmedical practice. But in particular heshowed the value of the personal equation,in applying our art in practice. Withouthunting for buried and sodden complexes,he found and routed them out by his compell-ing skill. He accomplished psychoanalysiswithouts tirring up the muddy depths of aCimmerian past; he was the father of thebest modern phases of psychotherapy andin particular he showed how much the non-technical side of the physician and hiscultural values have power to accomplish.
Annals of medical history . k, as wellas to clinical medicine and changed and added to methods ofmedical practice. But in particular heshowed the value of the personal equation,in applying our art in practice. Withouthunting for buried and sodden complexes,he found and routed them out by his compell-ing skill. He accomplished psychoanalysiswithouts tirring up the muddy depths of aCimmerian past; he was the father of thebest modern phases of psychotherapy andin particular he showed how much the non-technical side of the physician and hiscultural values have power to accomplish. You recall Matthew Arnolds oftenquoted statement to the effect thattwo-thirds of human life have to do withproblems of conduct. I would say that it iseven more true in medical practice thattwo-thirds of efficiency and success dependon conduct and character, and hardlyone-third on technique. | Weir Mitchells career illustrates this; *and it has a value to students of med-ical education as well as to those of 3a8 c2<i^<. I Medicine and the Humanities 329 the profession who have high ambition fortheir art. THE humanities AND TECHNIQUE The whole trend of modern medicaleducation now is to enlarge and emphasizethe technique and to ignore the have almost yearly had to assure mymedical classes, that they were as yetpersons without souls, because they wouldinsist on laughing at the awkward move-ments or unintelligent expressions of myneurological cripples displayed before have assured them that if they would bequiet or even shed tears at the time of theseincidents, they would add some cubits totheir moral statue and beget qualities thatwould make them better physicians. Theywould then behave better. In fact, themedical student is open-minded to culturalthings and would be glad, I am sure, if hewere taught a little less technique and moreof the humanities. The word culture has become athing of which the younger generation is alittle shy perhaps because it has beenspe
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