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Show Advice on Your Health f By Morris Rshbein, Editor. Journal American Medical Association , Our lives are full of conflicts. Ths desire for satisfaction of our physical needs, including hunger, sleep and sexual needs, must be regulated according to the civilisation civili-sation In which we live. If it were not all sorts of manifestations manifesta-tions would occur which have in many instances been included among the unlawful. The control of such desires msy bring about mental stresses. It is necessary in modern life for human beings to adjust them-aelvea them-aelvea to the -poclal aphere in which they circulate. The psychiatrist psy-chiatrist endeavors to find such conflicts as ths basis for many mental disturbances and by suitable suit-able education and explanation relieve the patient of his difficulties. diffi-culties. The Unconscious Many of the activities of our daily lives are controlled by our own wilL It is believed, however, that we are also controlled by what we inherit from our ancestors an-cestors and by situations which occur In early childhood and : ' 1 Of course, there is no evidence , . aa to just what ths intentions of i the higher powers actually have been. The woman who ia homely . is likely to have much to say about .music, literature and education. edu-cation. The person who enjoys ill health and who constantly at the sams tims fears sicknesa, it has been pointed out will say that nature intended people to live on natural food and go without with-out clothing and take cold baths. Most such people will, however, ahave themaelvea in order to have a nice appearance. Carried to the ultimata, this sort of rationaliser Is frequently found with a full set of whiskers. Escape 1 The psychiatrists have a great 1 deal to say about the desire of the individual to escape from his , strains ' and stresses. Thus the ,' woman who quarrels in the morn- j lng ends up with a headache. The woman who plays bridge all i afternoon and gets home too late ' to get dinner may go to bed sick. , Soms psychiatrists carry this so far aa to insist that everyone who develops a cold does so because I-of I-of a sense of escape through 111- ' nesa. . which are completely forgotten, but which may nevertheless influence in-fluence all of our lives thereafter. These Influences are retained in the unconscious. The Freudians believe that the unconscious is frequently struggling with the conscious for the control of the human being and that this brings about mental disturbances. Projection By projection the psychiatrist refers to a primitive mechanism in which we evaluate a atlmulua in terms of ths response. If, for example, a man makes a wrong bid In a bridge game and as a result sustains a severe penalty, pen-alty, he may excuse himself by blaming someone else for the failure. If this goes fsr enough, as It does, for example. In people who have paranoia, there ia the development de-velopment of the feeling of per-aecution per-aecution the idea that "everyone "every-one is against me." RaUonallsattoa In order to satisfy our minds we rationalise. A strong man who takes what hs wants from ths weak is a believer in ths doctrine of survival of the fittest aa far as muscles are concerned. The shrewd man who manipulates manipu-lates people to get what he wants rationalise by elating that It waa always the intention of higher powers for the intellectual to dominate. |
