Excerpt from Suggestion Instead of Medicine
If psycho-therapeutics were understood this monograph would be an impertinence; but, until the umpire arrives who can settle the questions in dispute, any explanation advanced in good faith may challenge attention.
Psychologists know a great deal more today about the faculties and functions of a human brain than the wisest scientists did a quarter of a century ago. Still, it must be admitted that the relations of mind to mind, the possible control of bodily activities and states by mental power, and the meaning and mechanism of "suggestion" constitute a dark continent, of which we possess very little accurate information. When we set ourselves seriously to the task of clearing away the confusion and mystery which veil the subject; when, appreciating the difficulties to be met, we ask what the peculiar transactions between healer and patient mean, - we find our stock of trustworthy knowledge exceedingly small.
Perhaps we have not gone to work in the right way. Perhaps we have reared our structure on a foundation unsupported by proof.
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