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Rabbit Hole · First published 23 May 1903; second edition 15 June 1903 · English

The Law of Mental Medicine: The Correlation of the Facts of Psychology and Histology in Their Relation to Mental Therapeutics

by Thomson Jay Hudson

About this book

Thomson Jay Hudson develops his theory of mental healing through the relationship he proposes between conscious thought, the subjective mind and the body. Beginning with questions drawn from psychology and histology, he argues that suggestion and mental processes can influence bodily activity and recovery.

The book moves from its theoretical foundation to auto-suggestion, hypnotic processes and the implications Hudson draws for mental therapeutics. It belongs to the early twentieth-century literature of psychical and New Thought inquiry, extending ideas associated with his earlier The Law of Psychic Phenomena. The complete second edition of June 1903 retains the original text, with the first-publication date of 23 May 1903 recorded in its imprint.