Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . ave conspired to make them what they are, andwhat, left to themselves, they will very likely continue to be. Forthis reason the altogether illusive and somewhat arid generalizationsfrom data, both quantitatively and qualitatively insufficient, uponwhich previous generations of physicians were compelled to basetheir forms of treatment, are no longer looked upon as quite satis-factory, and to-day it is, or should be, the teeming wealth of concreteindividual experience with which the physician works in hi


Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion. . ave conspired to make them what they are, andwhat, left to themselves, they will very likely continue to be. Forthis reason the altogether illusive and somewhat arid generalizationsfrom data, both quantitatively and qualitatively insufficient, uponwhich previous generations of physicians were compelled to basetheir forms of treatment, are no longer looked upon as quite satis-factory, and to-day it is, or should be, the teeming wealth of concreteindividual experience with which the physician works in his effortsto render service to those who seek it. But when points of view are recent and when each advanceof science only intensifies by contrast the limitations of knowledgethat preceded it, one scarcely feels justified in criticising, becauseinformation is neither as broad nor as deep as one could wish. Andnowhere, perhaps, does this apply more truly than to the study of ob-sessions. The more we seek to penetrate beneath the surface, the 1 See note under The Next Article, on p. 49.[51 ]. PSYCHOTHERAPY


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