Medical treatment.

Citation

Féré, C. (1899). Medical treatment (R. Park, Trans.). In C. Féré & R. Park (Trans.), The pathology of emotions: Physiological and clinical studies (pp. 482-499). London, : The University Press, Limited.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/14398-021

Abstract

The emotions are states of consciousness of internal origins. The pathology of the emotions presents the greatest analogy with that which is dependent upon cosmic agencies, that all the accidents of the emotions recall those of fatigue and physical pain. Once developed, the maladies which have been provoked by the emotions ought to be treated altogether as if they were dependent upon any other physical cause. This chapter focuses on the treatment of morbid emotivity which is in short, apart from preexisting organic lesions, the conditions at least most frequent of the pathological effects of the emotions and which constitutes by itself a pathological state. In this chapter, the following topics are discussed: physical agents; air, light, heat, alimentation, exercise, sleep; moral treatment; and hypnotic suggestion. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)