Religion and Medicine
Worcester,
McComb and Coriat
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
1908
Lay therapy
Religion and Medicine
By Elwood Worcester DD Phd
Samuel McComb MA of the Emmanuel Church Boston
Isador H Corat MD
NY NY Moffat Yard Co 1908
front page has sticker of bookseller
Chas E Laurian Importers and Booksellers 385 Wash'n St Boston
425 pages
Binding is strong
5th Printing Aug 1908
this is a very very rare book
The object of this book is to describe in plain terms the work in behalf
of nervous sufferers which has been undertaken in Emmuel Church Boston
to state what we are doing and to discuss the religious and scientific
principles on which we are building
In Boston, about 1905, The Emmanuel Movement arose which recognized the
value of body, mind and spirit in the treatment and healing of
illnesses, including alcoholism. An early book describing the Emmanuel
Movement was "Religion and Medicine". Weatherhead's book "Psychology,
Religion and Healing" is an extension of that work and examines the
methods of healing through mind and spirit.
Chapters Include
Foreward Introduction
Subconscious Mind
Suggestion
Auto Suggestion
Functional Neuroses
Causes of Nervousness both Heredity and Environment
Nervous System in Health and Disease
Diseases of the Subconscious
Nature of Hypnotism
Therapeutic Value of Hypnotism
Psych and Motor Re Education
Gen Principles of Psychotherapy
Fear and Worry
Abnormal Fears
Faith and its Therapeutic Power
Prayer and its Therapeutic Power
Suicide and its Prevention
Healing Wonders of Christ
Outlook of the Church
two apendix Some Disorders Haveing Mental Orig-achorn MD
Experiments in Auto Suggestion
Book includes a blow-in on half title
page advertising the formation and meetings of The Emmanuel Committee in
London.
This is often regarded as the 'big book' of the Emmanuel Movement. It
stresses the power of the mind over the body, medicine, good habits, and
a wholesome, well regulated life. The Emmanuel Group confined it's
practice to functional nervous disorders that included alcoholism. Most
of the disorders addressed had been associated with the moral life.
The book is an overview of techniques used by the authors to bring about
positive changes in their patients. The subconscious mind is discussed
at length, just as William James did in Varieties of a Religious
Experience. To reach the subconscious mind the authors employed
suggestion, hypnotism and auto-suggestion. The final section of the book
deals with the therapeutic value of prayer. If a cure was to be
effective it must include a spiritual life. As stated on page 304 of the
text:
Man must become conscious of his
need and dependence upon a Higher Power, and bring himself more and more
into harmonious relations with this Power, and this desire goes forth
with prayer.
The importance of the Emmanuel
Movement is the introduction of lay therapy, that is treatment by
laymen, just as AA is made up of alcoholics helping alcoholics. Some of
the success stories from the movement included Courtenay Baylor who, as
a recovering alcoholic, began working with Worchester in 1912. He may
have been the first lay therapist. Another success was Richard Peabody,
the author of Common Sense of Drinking. Peabody was treated by
Baylor.
Mel B's Book New Wine
has one of the finest chapters on the
lay therapy movement that I am aware of!!
separating
"ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY."
BY ISADOR H. CORIAT, M.D.,
Second Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Nervous
System, Boston
City
Hospital; Neurologist to the Mt. Sinai Hospital.
__________________
CONTENTS: I. THE EXPLORATION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS. --- What is the
Subconscious? --- Automatic Writing --- Testing the Emotions ---
Analysing the
Emotions --- Sleep --- Derams --- What is Hypnosis? --- Analysis of the
Mental
life.
II. DISEASES OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS. --- Losses of Memory ---
Restoration of
Lost Memories --- Illusions of Memory --- The Splitting of a Personality
---
Hysteria --- Psychasthenia --- Neurasthenia --- Psycho-Epileptic
Attacks.
__________________
Most of the investigations on Abnormal Psychology are widely
scattered
throughout the pages of Medical publications and psychological
literature
generally. Hence these researches are difficult of access to the
general
reader in any convenient and connected form.
The present volume is an attempt to bring all this material
together
within the compass of a single work, and some personal observations and
experiments have been supplied by the Author in illustration of the
various
theories propounded. The book is a valuable study of psychological
phenomena
in the region of the abnormal, and especially of subconscious mental
states,
from the medical standpoint.
The Rev W. Russell Bowie of the Grace Church of NY NY was
an outpost for the Emmanuel movement
for medically supervised religious psychotherapy
(Walter??)
http://www.edola.org/clergy/bowie.html
Richard Peabody The Comman
Sense of Drinking 1931
RELIGION AND
MEDICINE
the Moral Control Of Nervous
Disorders
Making Life Better Elwood Worcester 1933
above links other page about Religion and
Medicine
Emmanuel Movement Psychology of
Religous ExperiencBy Francis L Strickland
Chambers, Francis T. Francis Taylor
b. 1897. "The Drinker's Addiction : Its Nature and Practical Treatment
Counterfeit Miracles BB Warfield Mind Cure
Faith and
Health by Charles Reynolds Brown
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Emmanuel Movement
**
on Jim B's very fine website
many of worcester's books
are reprinted full length online
Clinbells book has very good chapter on Emmanuel Movement
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