SUGGESTION. AND MENTAL ANALYSIS AN OUTLINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MIND CURE BY WILLIAM BROWN M. A., M. D. OxoN., D. Sc., M. R. C. P. LoND. WILDE READER IN MENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LECTURER ON MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY, BETHLEM ROYAL HOSPITAL LONDON LATE NEUROLOGIST TO THE FOURTH ARMY, B. E. F., FRANCE SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED LONDON UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESS, LTD 17 WARWICK SQUARE, E. C. 4 1922 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION THE call for a second edition has followed so quickly upon the publication of the first that occasion has not arisen for any great change in the scope o plan of this book. But I have taken the opportunity to go carefully through the text, removing crudities of style in certain places, and altering and supplementing the wording in others where perusal of reviews of the book indicated its necessity, to obviate future misunderstanding. An additional chapter Chapter XIII has been added in order to emphasize the fact of the incompleteness of present theories of suggestion and the need of further unbiassed investigation, arid 6 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION also to mak clear the need of specialized training in neurology and psychiatry for the practice of psycho-therapy. WILLIAM BROWN. 80 HARLEY STREET, LONDON, W. I. Sept. i tb 9 1922. PREFACE IN setting out to write this little book, my central object was to give an elementary and non-technical account of the relation between two distinct and, in the main, mutually exclusive forms of theory and practice in the field of psycho-therapy, viz. suggestion and auto-suggestion on the one hand, and mental analysis including the special Freudian system of psycho-analysis on the other. It has for some yearsbeen my view that these two modes of thought can be harmonized, in spite of the vehement disclaimers of extreme partisans, and that a sound system of psycho therapy should satisfy the more moderate claims of both. In the following pages an attempt is made to justify this view in an elementary way. For a more detailed account of the analytic standpoint, I would refer PREFACE readers to mv Psychology and Psycho-therapy. 1 Indeed, on that side, the present book may be regarded as an introduction to the larger work. But I have taken the opportunity to deal somewhat more fully with the problems of suggestion and hypnosis than was there possible, and in particular to examine the view of which M. Emil Coud is the most prominent and enthusiastic exponent at the present day. Those who are acquainted with the literature of the subject, may not find much that is new in M. Coups position. But although I have had occasion to criticize the psychological background of M. Coups work, I would like to record my appre ciation of his extraordinarily clear and pene trating insight into the facts of suggestion, his transparent sincerity and his untiring zeal. He is not a doctor, and can therefore demonstrate his skill before the general public as no member of the medical profession 1 Published by Edward Arnold Co., London. Second Impression, 1922. PREFACE would be permitted to do. Hence it is only fair to point out that for many years medical men specializing in neurology and psycho-therapy have employed similar methods of treatment on suitable cases with success in no way inferior to that claimed for his work. But their more profound know ledge of the facts of physical and mental disease has allowed them tomake progress in psycho-therapy which leaves the amateur far behind. Psycho-therapy i not so simple as those untrained in medicine and in medical psychology sometimes appear to imagine. Auto-suggestion, or the patients appeal to his own subconscious, must be supplemented and supplemented so extensively as to be almost replaced by autognosis, or knowledge of many of the chief motive-forces actuating that subconscious…
