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Show , : . , Health and Beauty By DR. SOPHIA BBUNSON - The Cut of the Psychonalyst A great deal of tommy-rot has been disseminated in the last few years along the lino of behaviorism behavior-ism and psychoanalysis. A poor miserable neurasthenic drags himself him-self into the office of a practitioner practition-er to rid himself of the fears, anemia, ane-mia, insomnia and a constant knawing misery of the mind and spirit. For a little consideration of five dollars an hour, or some such ! matter he delves into human sec rets and cures of physical ills, begins be-gins to ask questions concerning the past and of the sufferer's dreams, thoughts of memories. The therepeutic virtues of psychoanalysis psy-choanalysis are supposed to de-pond de-pond upon the ability of the psychoanalyst psy-choanalyst to drag from his patient pa-tient an account of his dreams, which being interpreted by the gentleman in question, may reveal some repressed desires or longings that are responsible for the pitiful plight in which he finds himself. Each time that he goes to the healer's office, he is expected to make further revelations about himself, whether relevant or irrelevant. irrel-evant. In the opinion of the psychoanalyst psychoan-alyst the patient's mind is like a dismal well in which unfilled desires, de-sires, evil deeds, disappointments, defeats and unpleasant experiences experienc-es have dropped. They have been submerged into the subconscious and partly forgotten. The psychoanalyst, psycho-analyst, by getting the sufferer to remember them, and in turn pour them into his willing ears, will rid himself of the cause of his nervousness, neurasthenia 1 and consequent physical wretchedness. There are doubtless many self-centered self-centered neurasthenics whose sense of importance swells under such attention from the healers. They have been detailing their troubles until every one of them has grown weary of hearing them. Now they have sympathy and an opportunity opportun-ity to talk about themselves to their heart's content. If the psychoanalyst is practical, practi-cal, and has common sense, he may help many such patients. But they could be reached more effectively effec-tively by physicians who understand under-stand them, and who treat their minds and bodies without the humiliation hu-miliation of their dragging out so many unpleasant experiences from an almost forgotten past. It has even become fashionable to have children phychoanalyzed because they won't study at school and are impertinent to those who have charge of them or because of other bad habits. These children need old-fashioned parents who will spank obedience up their spinal spi-nal column. They need to learn that no means no, and there is no yes in it. The writer is speaking of children chil-dren with normal brains and bodies. bod-ies. If parents would only be pos-1 pos-1 itive with children, never deceive them, never deny them legitimate pleasures, but exact obedience, most of the problems would disappear dis-appear from our schools and society soci-ety would no longer be called upon up-on to deal with so many young criminals. |