The Physiology of Faith and Fear
Or the Mind in Health and Disease (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Physiology of Faith and Fear: Or the Mind in Health and Disease<br><br>In recent years we have been literally deluged with literature on "Suggestion," "Mental Healing," "Hypnotism," "Psychotherapy," psychic fads, and various healing "isms," not to mention "New Thought," "Christian Science," and other systems of religious teaching. It would seem as if doctor, preacher, and layman were now vying with one another in an effort to atone for their past indifference to, and neglect of, the important subjects, Mental Healing and Moral Therapeutics.<br><br>We are now passing through a period of popular reaction against the scientific materialism of the last century. The common people are awaking to the fact that the mental state has much to do with bodily health and disease. The bookmakers, in their efforts to satisfy the universal demand for teaching on various phases of mental healing, have flooded us with literature, much of which is premature, unscientific, incomplete, and highly disastrous in its misleading influence upon the popular mind and morals.<br><br>It is to be deplored that practically every system of modern mental healing has declared as the secret of its success its association with some creed or cult - claiming that physical healing was dependent upon the acceptance of some particular moral teaching or system of religious belief. At the very outset we desire to separate the study of mental healing from any and all particular brands of religion - not from religion as a state of mind, but from any particular system, sect, or form of religious belief.<br><br>We approach the subject of mental healing from the standpoint of the physician - the physiologist.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.