Mind in Disease (eBook)

Some Conditions Cured by Suggestion

M. P. Leahy (Autor)

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2018 | 4. Auflage
170 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-8117-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The Mind in Disease: Some Conditions Cured by Suggestion, Fourth Impression emphasizes that a hopeful mental outlook can do much to improve a patient's condition in disease, whether the disease itself is physical or mental. This book stresses that the mind is a factor in disease and acts sometimes by virtue of willpower or at other times by virtue of the imagination. By combining imagination and willpower, suggestion can be developed to cure many diseases. The topics discussed include the relationship between patient and doctor in suggestion treatment; physical pain, and how suggestion acts in the relief of it; chronic constipation cured by an impression made on the mind; and depression in a German prisoners of war camp, 1915. This publication is suitable for psychiatrists and medical practitioners interested in suggestion treatment.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
The Mind in Disease: Some Conditions Cured by Suggestion 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 14
Dedication 6
FOREWORD 8
INTRODUCTION 12
CHAPTER I. THE MIND IN DISEASE—THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PATIENT AND DOCTORIN SUGGESTION TREATMENT — MENTAL PAIN, E.G., WORRY — PHYSICALPAIN—AND HOW SUGGESTION ACTS IN THE RELIEF OF BOTH THESE CONDITIONS 18
The Mind in Disease 18
The Relationship between Patient and Doctor in Suggestion Treatment 22
Mental Pain, e.g., Worry 27
I can alter the impression they make on your mind 28
Physical Pain, and how Suggestion Acts in the Relief of it 32
PART 1: CONDITIONS I CURED IN MYSELF, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL 44
CHAPTER II. CONDITIONS I CURED IN MYSELF 46
Depression and Worry 46
Chronic Constipation Cured by an Impression madeon the Mind 57
Insomnia and Morphia Habit Cured by Suggestion 63
Self-Consciousness 70
PART 2: CASES IN WHICH THE MENTAL STATE WAS OBVIOUSLY THE PREDOMINANT FACTOR IN PRODUCING THE DISCOMFORT 80
CHAPTER III. CASES IN WHICH THE MENTAL STATE WAS OBVIOUSLY THE PREDOMINANT FACTOR IN PRODUCING THE DISCOMFORT 82
Depression in a German Prisoners of War Camp,1915 82
Fear of Thunder and Lightning of Lifelong Duration Cured by Suggestion 91
Fear while Motoring 96
Insomnia due to Mental States—Business Worry 99
Insomnia due to Mental States—Another Case of Worry 106
PART 3: CASES IN WHICH THE PHYSICAL CONDITION WAS OBVIOUSLY THE PREDOMINANT FACTOR PRODUCING THE SYMPTOMS COMPLAINED OF 112
CHAPTER IV. CASES IN WHICH THE PHYSICAL CONDITION WAS OBVIOUSLY THE PREDOMINANT FACTOR PRODUCING THE SYMPTOMS COMPLAINED OF 114
Sciatic Pain due to Gunshot Wound of Sciatic Nerve 114
Pain of Fractured Thigh Cured by Suggestion 121
Pain (Following Operation for Gunshot Wound of the Abdomen with Injury to Fourth Lumbar Vertebra) cured by Suggestion 122
Chronic Constipation—Case I 127
Chronic Constipation—Case II 130
Insomnia due to Physical States 131
PART 4: CASES IN WHICH IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DECIDE WHETHER THE MENTALOR PHYSICAL CONDITIONWAS THE PREDOMINANT FACTOR IN PRODUCING THE SYMPTOMS COMPLAINED OF 140
CHAPTER V. CASES IN WHICH IT WAS DIFFICULT TO DECIDE WHETHER THE MENTAL OR PHYSICAL CONDITION WAS THE PREDOMINANT FACTOR IN PRODUCING THE SYMPTOMS COMPLAINED OF 142
Chronic Alcoholism—Case I 142
Chronic Alcoholism—Case II 148
Baldness (Partial) Following Physical Injury and Shock 151
Asthma: Horse Asthma and Ordinary Asthma 159
CONCLUSION 164
I: APPEND HEREWITH A LIST OF CONDITIONS CURED BY SUGGESTION IN MY OWN PRACTICE, EMBRACING DISEASES,HABITS, DEEDS AND FEARS 166
INDEX 170

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.2.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pharmakologie / Pharmakotherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-8117-5 / 1483281175
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-8117-9 / 9781483281179