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After the historical introduction, I took hold of something that more nearly appealed to me - name ly the revision of the material gathered during prao tice, from that new standpoint at which I had ar rived. First of all this meant attempt to give the enduring fundamental idea that firm and monu mental form the idea must have, if from its height one is to survey anything so extensive as the phe nomena of mental disease. I was confronted here. With a task that was of a philosophical or purely religious nature, rather than a medical one.
One thing strikes one forcibly in modern psycho' therapy. It investigates not alone as science the dif ferent forms in which spiritual decay comes to the surface in anxiety-states, insanity, etc.; but as therapy too, it attempts to help man overcome that spiritual death and reach harmonious security on the other side of it. It should then be clear that its whole activity circles about the idea of spiritual death; but what strikes one is that instead of domi nating the scientific literature, this idea has disap peared from it. This is the more surprising since every unprejudiced observer must at once be aware of this inner struggle between life and death, as soon as he comes into contact with this class of patients. It may be reflected in different ways, but putting aside contingent details, the same essentials are al ways met with. As a rule, too, it is the more obvious because most patients come for treatment just when they are on the point of succumbing to life's negative forces.
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After the historical introduction, I took hold of something that more nearly appealed to me - name ly the revision of the material gathered during prao tice, from that new standpoint at which I had ar rived. First of all this meant attempt to give the enduring fundamental idea that firm and monu mental form the idea must have, if from its height one is to survey anything so extensive as the phe nomena of mental disease. I was confronted here. With a task that was of a philosophical or purely religious nature, rather than a medical one.
One thing strikes one forcibly in modern psycho' therapy. It investigates not alone as science the dif ferent forms in which spiritual decay comes to the surface in anxiety-states, insanity, etc.; but as therapy too, it attempts to help man overcome that spiritual death and reach harmonious security on the other side of it. It should then be clear that its whole activity circles about the idea of spiritual death; but what strikes one is that instead of domi nating the scientific literature, this idea has disap peared from it. This is the more surprising since every unprejudiced observer must at once be aware of this inner struggle between life and death, as soon as he comes into contact with this class of patients. It may be reflected in different ways, but putting aside contingent details, the same essentials are al ways met with. As a rule, too, it is the more obvious because most patients come for treatment just when they are on the point of succumbing to life's negative forces.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Seven years ago when this book was written, it already seemed to me that its subject matter belonged to history and now the theories of Freud and Adler appear almost as antiquated as those of Feuchtersleben and Liebault. It was not however because of this historical interest that the book came into being. The present and the future always engross me sufficiently to absorb all my attention. But when I took over Wetterstrand's practice as a specialist in psychotherapy in Stockholm, I quickly discovered that I could not keep on where he had left off. Even more impossible did I find it to feel at home in the new systems and methods of treatment that had grown up and begun to control psychotherapeutic thought. In trying to follow any one of the leaders in psychic treatment, I found my results poor. On the other hand, when I examined each case individually, following only the suggestions which just that case alone presented, my progress was satisfactory. Finally as practical experience accumulated, I found I must try to make it conform to the new theoretical trends of thought.
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