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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Outwitting Our Nerves by Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy Author: Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury Release Date: February 8, 2005 [EBook #14980] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUTWITTING OUR NERVES *** Produced by Rick Niles, Ronald Holder and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. OUTWITTING OUR NERVES A PRIMER OF PSYCHOTHERAPY BY JOSEPHINE A. JACKSON, M.D. HELEN M. SALISBURY [Illustration] NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1922 1921, by THE CENTURY CO. PRINTED IN U.S.A. TO MARY PATTERSON MANLY A LOVER OF TRUTH FOREWORD "Your trouble is nervous. There is nothing we can cut out and there is nothing we can give medicine for." With these words a young college student was dismissed from one of our great diagnostic clinics. The physician was right. In a nervous disorder there is nothing to cut out and there is nothing to give medicine for. Nevertheless there is something to be done,--something which is as definite and scientific as a prescription or a surgical operation. Psychotherapy, which is treatment by the mental measures of psycho-analysis and re-education, is an established procedure in the scientific world to-day. Nervous disorders are now curable, as has been proved by the clinical results in scores of cases from civil life, under treatment by Freud, Janet, Prince, Sidis, DuBois, and others; and in thousands of cases of war neuroses as reported by Smith and Pear, Eder, MacCurdy, and other military observers. These army experts have shown that shell-shock in war is the same as nervousness in civil life and that both may be cured by psycho-analysis and re-education. For more than a decade, in handling nervous cases, I have made use of the findings of recognized authorities on psychopathology. Truths have been applied in a special way, with the features of re-education so emphasized that my home has been called a psychological boarding-school. As the alumni have gone back to the game of life with no haunting
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