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Dr. Morton Prince, and others, through the employment of 

 what is termed the psycho-analytic method, phenomena for 

 which heretofore physiological explanations had been sought, 

 are now receiving psychological explanations at the hands of 

 the physiologists themselves. 



Professor Freud, in applying the psycho-analytic method 

 to the treatment of hysterical patients and other neurotics, 

 says: "Our hysterical patients suffer from reminiscences. 

 Their symptoms are the remnants and the memory symbols 

 of certain (traumatic) experiences"; 1 and further, that "the 

 interpretation of dreams is the via regia to the interpretation 

 of the unconscious, 2 the surest ground of psycho-analysis, and 

 a field in which every worker must win his convictions and 

 gain his education." 3 



Dr. Morton Prince, in dealing with like phenomena, states: 

 "My observations confirm those of Freud, so far as to show 

 that running through each dream there is an intelligent 

 motive; so that the dream can be interpreted as expressing 

 some idea or ideas which the dreamer previously has enter- 

 tained." 1 In describing certain physiological effects following 

 dreams, he further states: "Now the first thing to be noted 

 in these physiological phenomena the aphonia, the blind- 

 ness, the paralysis, the headache, the hallucination, the tics, 

 the depression and fatigue is that in the dream they were 

 primarily due to psychical causes, certain ideas, and were 

 elements in a process of which the dream consciousness was 

 also a part." 5 



Thus, from various sides, there come supports for the con- 

 tention of Verworn that in their elements all the sciences are 

 psychical, and therefore that their different fields of labour 

 are but a matter of convention necessitated by the immensity 

 of the task of science. 



lu The Origin and Development of Psycho-Analysis", The American 

 Journal of Psychology, April, 1910, p. 187. 



2 That is, Freud explains, the underlying dream thoughts which, in the 

 adult, receive symbolic representation in the 'manifest' content of dreams. 



S O.C. p. 200. , , A , 



4 "The Mechanism and Interpretation of Dreams", The Journal of Abnor- 

 mal Psychology, Vol. V, No. 4, Oct.-Nov. 1910, p. 151. 



6 O.C. p. 191. 



