Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . grasp the fullsignificance of this class of mental disorders is suggested by Dr. Bramwellin pointing out that one of the commonest forms of obsessions, excessivedoubt, folie du doute, is found not only in individual patients, but mayeven be thought of as a disease of Science, vainly trying to give obsession aplace in its catalogue. One of the most interesting points he brings out is the fact that obses-sions depend on the emotion they induce. From the anxiety and the feararises the disturbance. The poi
Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . grasp the fullsignificance of this class of mental disorders is suggested by Dr. Bramwellin pointing out that one of the commonest forms of obsessions, excessivedoubt, folie du doute, is found not only in individual patients, but mayeven be thought of as a disease of Science, vainly trying to give obsession aplace in its catalogue. One of the most interesting points he brings out is the fact that obses-sions depend on the emotion they induce. From the anxiety and the feararises the disturbance. The point of attack, he intimates, is, therefore,these emotions. Cure them and the obsession disappears. Dr. Bramwells success in the use of hypnotism in obsessions is testi-fied to by the severity and variety of the cases he has relieved. It may hap-pen, as is shown by one example given, that the patient may again become avictim of the old obsession; but in the particular case referred to the patientat least gained ten years of health by the treatment. [3o] PHYSIOLOGICAL SECTION M ARTICLE VIII. Obsessions and their Treatment bySuggestion1—I By J. MILNE BRAMWELL, , CM. Author of Hypnotism, etc. ^UCH doubt has existed, and still exists, in refer-ence to the mental conditions involved in obses-sions. Dr. Ladame, of Geneva, for example, inreferring to the different opinions expressedconcerning folie du doute and delire du toucherby Schuele, Magnan, Krafft - Ebing, Marce,Jules Falret, Morel, Lasegue, Ball, Meynert,Kraepelin, and Scholz, says folie du doute is regarded by contempo-rary writers sometimes as a symptom of the most varied mentalaffections, sometimes as a psychopathic episode of hereditary degen-eracy, sometimes as a special form of psychosis, and sometimes asa simple elementary trouble dependent upon the general pathologyof mental alienation. Thus, doubt, he says, does not only exist amongthe patients; it has passed into science and could equally be calledfolie du doute,
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