Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1916 — LINGER ALWAYS IN MEMORY [ARTICLE]

LINGER ALWAYS IN MEMORY

Childhood Happenings Are Often Recalled With Results Prejudicial to r the Mental Health.

“Most of us, looking back to our days of childhood, can recall very little about them, either pleasant or unpleasant. The common assumption has always been that we cannot recall them because they have been completely crowded out of memory by the host of other memory-images accumulated in the intervening years. But lately, aa a result of the Investigations of a group of scientists to whom has been given the name of psychopathologists, it haa been proved that although the happenings of. childhood may ki truth be almost entirely forgotten aa far as conscious recollection is concerned, vivid memory-images of them are nevertheless retained beneath the threshold of consciousness; and, if they are of an unpleasant nature, may act like an irritant of the nervous system to undermine the health. “Time and again the beginnings of annoying and distressing nervous symptoms, of strange hysterical attacks, and even of seeming Insanity, have been traced to long-forgotten incidents of the early life, the casual connection between the buried mem-ory-image and the symptoms of disease being plainly shown by the disappearance of the latter when the former, by one of several ingenious psychological methods of ‘mind-tunneling,’ is unearthed and brought once more into conscious remembrance.” —H. Ad* dington Bruce, in the Century.