Is "mental healing" possible?

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Mental Healing

Q. Is "mental healing" possible?

A. The success of various classes of mind healers with certain invalids affords most con­vincing evidence that a large number of per­sons suffer from maladies which have their chief seat in a morbid imagination or a wrong mental attitude. Thousands of neurasthenics are made miserable by depressing symptoms which are the outgrowth of a disordered state of the nervous system, and which have no organic foundation. Morbid sensations which are dis­tressing and even highly painful in these patients not infrequently disappear instantly when some happy circumstance produces a favorable change in the patient's state of mind. On the other hand, an unfavorable mental change may bring about at once an aggravation of symptoms present or may induce a wholly new crop of un­pleasant sensations. Every physician of ex­perience has encountered such cases.

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