A Physician's View on the Upshot of Psycho-Analysis Many harsh things have been said about the theory and practice of psycho-analysis, but whatever we may think of it, there emerges from the controversy at least one important truth upon which all are agreed—that an analytic treatment of the mind, in some shape or form, leads to cure or ameliora~ tion of many mental and nervous states.
This analysis may be superficial and refer merely to an unloading of conscious memories, in which case we may call it siruply a. ment-] al of life and to facts of which we Were never conscious at any time. This is the up-to-date psychoanalysis.
In the one case it is the confess sion of what we know; in the other, the more or less tardy recognition of what we don't know.
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