1.8.C. 12 Procs. of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. |N.S., XVIII, 
new mental synthesis is at the same time effected, in 
which are included all those portions ‘of the mind which have 
been split off and kept out of consciousness by repression. 
Incidentally I may mention that it is supposed by some that, 
if mediumistic trance may be regarded as a neurosis, psycho- 
analytical methods of research into the mind of a medium would 
tend to ‘cure’ the medium of his gift for trance manifestations, 
if it were not for unconscious resistances set up, which may be 
so great as to be insuperable. 
cannot pursue this further here, nor say much about how 
the digging out of the foreign body, the repressed complex, is 
effected ; but dreams and their interpretations and word associa- 
tions and their time reactions are prominent features. In the 
latter method the words called out sometimes yield such long 
intervals before the answering word is given that they con- 
stitute what are known as ‘ complex indicators.’ These again 
are of special interest in connection with psychic research ; for 
in the case of those who believe in super-normal acquisition of 
knowledge by mediums by means of telepathy with the living 
or the dead, it is contended that the complex indicators may be 
used to define particular personalities so distinctly that they 
might be recorded and classified like finger prints for identifica- 
tion purposes. 
Returning to psychotherapy, I understand that ia the 
near future it is hoped to establish in England clinics and 
give facilities for patients to be treated in the earlier stages 0 
Division has now several institutions under their control where 
this modern treatment is being successfully carried on, an 
developments are taking place to provide similar treatment n 
the ordinary civil institutions in the country. 
I do not know that much is doing in this line in India 
yet. Perhaps the Indian is individually less troubled in this 
way than our western civilisation ; though whether as a race this 
is true may be open to question, judging by the example fur- 
nished by non-co-operation in the matter of the psychology of 
the crowd. To stray for a moment into wider fields, it might 
be illuminating to the leaders of the non-co-operation move- 
ment if they considered the bearings of the science of the New 

