MENTAL THERAPEUTICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8030, 17 January 1906, Page 3

MENTAL THERAPEUTICS.

Mr J. Goodman, who is achieving a colonial reputation as a healer, and is at present practising for a short time in New Plymouth, lectured to- a fair audience on Monday night. He showed that mental healing was a science, and that therefore there was nothing uncanny or supernatural about it. In the whole range of phyehological research there is no branch of the study of such transeendant, practical interest and importance to the world us that which pertains to its application on the cure of disease. That there resides in mankind a power over the functions and sensations of the body, unci that that | power can be invoked at will under certain c jnditions, and applied for the alleviation of human suffering, no longer, said Mr Goodman, admits of rational doubt. He contended that the history of all nations presents testimony in support of this proposition, and he quoted Biblical records of Maying on of hands, etc., in proof of this contention, also a number of miraculous cures of more modern times. The suggestive mind is amenable to control by suggestion, and by suggestion diseases can be cured, and pain modified. Equally suffering can be brought about by suggestion cither by one's own mind or the mind of another, He disclaimed using hypnotism in his practice, or any desire to wage war with the medical profession, to whom humanity was indebted for all that was known of anatomy and surgery. Mental therapeutics, said the lecturer, had a wide range of usefulness beyond ordinary medical practices, and when it is cleansed from the detraction with which ignorant calumniators have befouled it will become a chief corncr-

-..one in the future imposing edifice, drugless healing, which will tend to sweep disease and crime from the face of the earth.