Psycho-Therapy in the Practice of Medicine and Surgery

Excerpt from Psycho-Therapy in the Practice of Medicine and Surgery

When a student launches on the Sea of Mind he soon finds himself in deep water. His sounding line will not reach bottom. The trouble is that the depths are infinite. There are "the heavens above and the earth beneath and the waters under the earth," as the Universe is aptly described by the sacred writer.

In truth he does not launch at all, for he himself, in essence, is a part of the sea. It is a sea of vibrations in which he is immersed and of which his thinking self is an integral part.

I have hesitated to venture a public opinion concerning even those phases of psychology that most interest me as a physician and surgeon. My main object now is not edification and finality, but stimulation to inquiry, realizing that convictions of value are not gained from mere reading, but from soaking ones mind in a subject, "by continually thinking unto it," as Newton said.

I have been compelled to speak of the "conscious" and the "unconscious" or "subconscious," the "objective" and the "subjective," the "subliminal" and the subliminal. The exact significance of these terms I do not pretend to understand: the designated powers I do not undertake to define. The dual mind is hypothetical. It is probably only two phases of a much "greater self," as Myers has suggested. I beg not to be held to strict account.

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