WONDER FEATS OF DREAM DETECTIVE.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 August 1919, Page 6

WONDER FEATS OF DREAM DETECTIVE.

DOCTOR’S “AGE OF MIRACLES.” UNLOCKED MEMORIES: SPEECH FOR THE DUMB. Miracles. Nobody believes in them I:oW.adays_ Yet the days of miracles are not past, for here are some, achieved, to to spefiik, on our own door--step:—— Bringing back lost memories. Reincarnating childhood (lays in a patient. » Analysing and tracking down the sources of dreadful dreams Curing functional . paralysis Causing a dumb man to talk Making the blind to see, the deaf to hear, and the shattered mind normal in shock cases { He that has done these things is Dr Willizrm. Brown, a sparsely-built! man, with a wealth of fair hair and a. pair of large sunken blue eyes. Heg works not in some mystical Eastern‘ isetting, but in a laboratory at King's? gcollege, in the prosaic region of the} Strand. He is, indeed, one of the most ; remarkable of the younger generation| of medical men, and his series of lec-i |tu:eg on pathological psychology hasi. attracted wide attention. 4000 “BURIED MEMOIRS.” 1 Of all his wonders, perhaps the most E interesting is that of searching among 5 buried memories, done with the aid of _hypnosis. At the battlefront 4000 ‘cases passed through his hands at af [neurological centre. 0 “Take the case of a man mute from shock,” he says. “I place him on a couch lightly, and gradually hypnotisc him. I then tellrhim that the moment I put my hand on his forehead he will seem’ to be again in the fighting and will live again through his expgrionces. . “Immediately he begins to twist. and turn, and shouts in a terror-striken voice . .' He really lives again through that awful time. This process of working off ‘repressed emotion’ is called abreaction

“Deaf and dumb cases are much easier to cure than stammering, and for insomnia I apply auto-suggestion. ‘ HOW DREAMS COME.

“Péoplg are right"Wh_'en they think that the cziuse of dre-imise is often salrnhn ant‘ cucxlrggbqp: but th.at does not account for the foifm ’c:hg dream takes.

Some patients’ dreams are "so terrify[ing that they have to be exercised. Y “I remove dream effects by first finding out their origin. A patient {told me that he was continually terrorlised by the same drealn———one man "stabbing another, and then turning on Ethe dl‘eanler. That dream I traced to a melodrama seen when he was thirteen years old. V “Lost memories are due to many causes, but I -have succeeded’ in bringing back the memory of events that ‘happened when a man was only three , years old. V I As to the lighter possibilities of his 'mal-vellous results, Dr Brown says that [during the War the idea was seriously iput to him that the statements‘ of men :who had “swung the lead” on leave [could be testeci. Another proposition ‘was to extract intelligence fl_‘om Ger‘man prisoners.