Identifier: psychotherapycou2190park (find matches)
Title: Psychotherapy; a course of reading in sound psychology, sound medicine and sound religion.
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Parker, William Belmont, 1871-1934, editor
Subjects: Mental healing Mental health Psychotherapy Mental Healing Mental Health Psychotherapy
Publisher: New York : Centre Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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ream of normal consciousness they thrust themselves; and in pro-portion to their intensity, frequency, and elaboration they disrupt theequable flow of thought, emotion, feeling, and volition, producingat one time merely a momentary, inconsequential disturbance, andpassing thence through all grades of severity, until they completelydominate and obstruct the life of their victim.* Remembering, then,that by obsession in general is to be understood any unwelcome, extra-voluntary, recurring mental mechanism, we are prepared to appre-hend the multifarious forms that obsessions take. If we accept asadequate the traditional division of mental activities into those ofintellect, will, feeling, and emotion, we find obsessions presentingthemselves in each of these spheres of mental life. 1 (In most instances demoniacal possession is met with in isolated cases, but in theMiddle Ages it appeared in epidemic form. In this it resembled witchcraft.)2Mercier, Psychology, Normal and Morbid, p. 368. (52)
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OBSESSIONS CCORDINGLY, Loewenfeld 1 groups obsessions upon a de- a. Those in the intellectual sphere, which may be divided intotwo categories: (1) More or less isolated and independent obsessions includ-ing imperative ideas; in the narrower sense of the word, imperativesensations and imperative hallucinations. (2) The obsessive ideas of a more complicated form of men-tal activity such as the forced questioning, imperative remembrances,compulsory thinking, excessive introspection. b. The imperative processes which are chiefly characterizedby anomalous emotional reactions, apprehensiveness with or withoutdefinite fears, imperative emotional states and moods. c. The imperative phenomena associated with the motor dis-charge, impulses, a great variety of simpler movements as well asmore complicated acts and inhibitory processes. Another classification is that of Bianchi,2 who divides obsessionsin a general way into (1) obsessional ideas, (2) obsessional emotions,(3) obsessional impulses. I

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