Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — WARD FOR NERVOUS DISEASES [ARTICLE]

WARD FOR NERVOUS DISEASES

Treatment by Psycho-Analysis *to Be Made on Patients In Johns Hopkins Hospital. Baltimore, h^d.—Johns Hopkins hospital will soon have the first ward in the world for the treatment of nervous diseases under what Is known as psycho-analysis, or soul analysis. Experiments will be made oq patients during sleep in this new department of the Henry Phipps psychiatlc clinic, which is being built with money given by the New York mUlionalre. The theory on which the new treatment is based is that every person Is

possessed of two personalities, com' scions and subconscious. It is held that when ajtprson is asleep the conscious personality Is at rest and the subconscious is predominant, hence dreams are the natural interpretation of the repressed of {the subconscious personality. “Dream analysis” is the chief method employed In tfie diagnosis which affords a guide to the proper treatment of the disease. In completeness of Its equipment the ward is without parallel In the world and it is believed that' it will bring much light on the treatment of nervousness, an affection so common in this country that It come to he known among physicians as the “American” disease. Psycho-analysis will he jyraotlced In the hospital by Dr. Trtgant Burrow, who has been studying this science for three years In Europe under Doo l tor Freud and Doctor Jung of Zurich, Switzerland, who are authorities. The treatment alms at the unification of the personalities. Knowing the wishes and wants of the conscious personality as derived from the conversation of the patient, there remain to be ascertained the wishes and wants of the subconscious personality. Thfe principle of the school is that! there lurks in every dream, often die* guised, a repressed wish for meat Although this phase of the treatment of nervous diseases will be itj the hands of Doctor Burrow,’lt Is due In great part to the efforts of Dr. Adolf Meyer, head of the department for the treatment of neurotic disease, that the ward will be established. Doctof* Meyer is a native of Zurich, Switzerland. He came to Johns Hopkins last year from the New York State Pathological Institute at Wards island, New York city.