Psychiatry is Magic
A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.
Notes:
Using mere "words" to heal patients.
Folksonomies: psychiatry
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The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud