Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — NEW BRANCH OF MEDICINE [ARTICLE]

NEW BRANCH OF MEDICINE

, - - W**f> - ... .. , . Bearing of Dreams in Relation to . Nervous Conditions of Patients "V Is Discussed. New York. —Cures by means of telling the physician what the patients think of him are among the possibilities in psychanalysis, says the Medical Record. Dr. E; W. Scripture of this city, who has been working on Dr. Freud’s method of studying the condition of patients through their talk and dreams, recounts some of his enceswhen ashed' to' talk impromptu, made such remarks as "Doctor, you always wear a collar with turned corners," or " You part your,hair on the right side." . „. ”1 pointed out to him," writes the physician, “that those thoughts were not about me personally, and that he was merely putting me off In order not to express trliat was really in his mind. Finally he reported to me that it occurred to him that the doctor was a very timid man. I explained the principle as in the preceding case, and he at once told a, long tale of suffering from Intense timidity—a suffering almost beyond belief—that was the ruin of his life. After the resistance had once been broken down the thoughts came freely and the cure successfully proceeded.” Another patient reported as promptu thoughts that the doctor's hair was getting thin and. that .he was beginning to stout - This was the remark the patient made to #tkJung. The doctor discovered there was nothing of the kind as Car as he was con-

• ••<***>—, • • . . .... cerned, but that the patient was worried about himself and his own advancing age. Dr. Scripture is one of the physicians in this country who has made a special study of dreams in their relations to certain nervous states, and he finds also that the study of these visions is helpful in directing the correction of character. One young man was constantly reporting that in his dreams he attended receptions and various public functions and there met many celebrated people. inquiry developed that this ypung man was so bashful th&fc ln hls waking hours he ran away from everybody on tight. The physlciahs. on learning the nature of this sensitiveness, - were enabled to help the youth overcome his natural timidity.