Social Re-Education and Nervous Disorders: I. A Co-Operative Experiment in Mental Therapy
This is the first of three articles investigating the social-psychological factors involved in cases of "nervous" persons undergoing treatment under the direction of a medical specialist. The articles will undertake to indicate the importance of dealing with such factors in the promotion o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1923
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The journal of religion
Year: 1923, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 170-187 |
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| Summary: | This is the first of three articles investigating the social-psychological factors involved in cases of "nervous" persons undergoing treatment under the direction of a medical specialist. The articles will undertake to indicate the importance of dealing with such factors in the promotion of physical, mental, and moral health. 1. A brief review of the history of mental healing shows certain persistent aspects of human behavior and reactions to the environment. These are today receiving scientific investigation. 2. Modern psychotherapeutic theories are reviewed and evaluated in the light of further possible development in the direction of a more thoroughgoing social psychological technique. 3. The experimental study upon which this series of articles is based was undertaken as part of a co-operative technique of examination and treatment of certain cases in the private practice of a medical specialist. The duty of the psychologist was that of ascertaining the precise nature of the social maladjustment which was held to underlie the "nervous" symptoms of worry, depression, overexcitement, etc. On the therapeutic side social and religious education went hand in hand with the medical treatment prescribed. 4. An analysis and classification of some one hundred and fifty cases together with the medical and psychological diagnoses indicates the nature of the underlying causes and gives a clue to the type of social and moral re-education necessary. |
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| ISSN: | 1549-6538 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/480343 |