Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease / by August Forel ; authorised translation from the second German edition by Herbert Austin Aikins.
- Auguste Forel
- Date:
- 1907
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hygiene of nerves and mind in health and disease / by August Forel ; authorised translation from the second German edition by Herbert Austin Aikins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![process is repeated, the more firmly fixed is the memorj^-image. Then, too, a frequent repetition of the same set of mental occurrences makes their asso- ciation with each other so easy that the mental im- pression they make gets weaker and weaker until at last the connection is so mechanical—so habitual and automatic—and the impression becomes so weak that it is no longer noticed, and disappears from the do- main of the ordinary waking consciousness. Thus it becomes actually or apparently subconscious. It is scarcely necessary to add that all impulses of the will to action are also preserved as memory-images or paths of recall, though these motor images remain for the most part subconscious. From what takes place in memory, perhaps more than from anything else, we can clearly see that that Something which appears to us as a mental condition has corresponding energies and movements in the brain, though these remain hidden for the most part under the threshold of consciousness. A good memory preserves many traces, revives them again easily through association, and easily recognises them. 6. Attention. While we are thinking, we can keep only a few mental conditions in consciousness at the same time. I cannot read a book attentively and listen to a speech at the same time, or even think at once of all the contents of the book. Thus at every to form a chord, or when tastes and smells and touch combine to form the total 'taste' of celery, the combination is called fusion.—E. L. Thomdike, Elements of Psychology, p. 41.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21174143_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
