Psychotherapy
treatment of , treatment of fluence. The treatment takes various forms and the conditions of its efficacy depend on the psychical character of the disease and the responsiveness of the psychical remedies. Since, however, there is hardly a malady that has not its psychical factors psychothersupplement the work of it cannot effect a cure. It is estimated ordinary treatment even in cases where that nearly half the number of known It is estimated diseases have a psychical origin, though, on the other hand, every illness has its physical basis also . The mental influence has to be of a character to fit the case. is of the simplest and a mere prohibition In the case case. In the case of children the remedy or command or word of flattery and enmay have its due effect. There is no limit to the tricks and artifices that may be used from harshness to sympathy, from bullying to wheedling, from playing on prepossessions and perphilosophical argument: all have their ment: all have their place in dealing with afflicted. The skill of the practitioner will be shown in his capacity for trained observation of the connection between cause and for applying his sugaccordingly. tice falls into a number of divisions, of Psychotherapeutic treatment in practreatment in pracwhich the most important which the most important fall under the , suggestion, re-education, and tion, and psychoanalysis. These methinterlap more or less. Hypnosis, as here used, is based largely on the influence of suggestion, seeking means ideas in the patient's mind, while his means of fixing certain ameliorative will and consciousness are held in reconditions such as hypnotic sleep. Under the heading of suggestions are included tions are included methods of inducing emotional conditions by inpatient. Re-education has as its purpose fluences beyond the cognizance of the the mental reconstruction of the patient mind and showing him what he is capable of performing and PTARMIGAN what he is not. PSYCHOANALYSIS (q. v,), is an extended form of his re-education, and involves the moral rehabilitation of the patient by leading him through free association to bring his whole mind into the open, however reluctant he may be in doing so, and thus reveal the repressed desires, of which, according to the theory of Freud, the neurotic manifestations are the outward symbols and expressions.