Dream Psychology - Softcover

Nicoll, Maurice

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ISBN 10: 087728475X ISBN 13: 9780877284758

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1991

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The question of psychological sickness is always delicate. We cannot assume the possibility of there being such a thing as psychological sickness unless we suppose that a human psychology exists. If we believe the dictum of Cabanis that the nerves make the man, we have no real necessity of making the vastly difficult postulate that a human psychology exists. It would certainly appear that medical science does not desire to postulate such a thing when it tells the stammerer or the hysteric that his nerves are out of order. Nerves are definite, material objects, white in colour, that traverse the length and breadth of the body. In so far as they are definite, material, and objective, they cannot be a matter of psychology, but of neurology. By insisting on a human neurology we can thus, at first sight, prevent the existence of a human psychology. That is the attitude of many physicians at the moment. But let us examine the question of the stammerer ja the light of such a theory of nerves. He isO sually a person who can speak perfectly well when ,4ie is quite by himself. He stammers when he is with other people.
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Nicoll was a well-known pioneer in British psychological medicine.

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