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http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/11602-004
Discusses research on hypnotism, mental disease, and the subconscious conducted in the United States. What results from the scrutiny of such cases? For one thing, or so it seems to me, the knowledge that an unfailing instrument is available to readjust the mental equilibrium of the individual and the race tottering under the strain and hurry of modern conditions of life. The psychopathologists, it is true, confess that they are helpless in the presence of actual insanity; but actual insanity is often preceded by stages in which it is possible to avert the impending doom. Moreover, other nervous and mental ills, not necessarily culminating in insanity, lend themselves readily to treatment by the skilled psychopathologist, while obstinately refusing to yield to the methods of the orthodox schools. All of which should carry home to the unprejudiced observer the great desirability of furthering by every means possible the investigations already so rich in results despite the heavy handicaps imposed on the explorers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)