Word: psychoanalyst
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...psychoanalysis. Is it a science or a philosophy? As there can be no science with a philosophy, it is both. Freud says that injuries are caused to the body by the mind (neurosis) ; not the conscious mind, for no one is so foolish, but by the unconscious mind. The psychoanalyst's job is, therefore, to bring into the conscious mind those factors which are disturbing the unconscious mind and so cause them to disappear...
Here, obviously, is a problem for the psychoanalyst. Perhaps Mr. Dyar was unhappy in his chosen profession. Perhaps he tired of beetles and bugs, and longed for the higher, the nobler things of life--and dug underground tunnels. Or perhaps he felt a call down the long ages from his delving ancestor, Adam...
...William A. White, well-known American psychoanalyst, and superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the government institution for mental diseases, under whose care the Washington experiments have been made, is less sanguine, but believes that there is considerable hope from the malaria treatment...
Take "Le Malade Imaginaire" from the theatre of Moliere or any other play on the wiles of the hypochondriac. Tap the vein of comedy that ran through "The Molluse' of blessed memory. Add a smattering from the lore of the psychoanalyst. Stir violently and you will have the deft, original and uncommonly entertaining piece which, under the clumsy and inept title of "Mamma's Affair," arrived last evening at the reopened Little Theatre...