Hygiene of nerves & mind in health and disease / August Forel ; translated from the German by Austin Aikins.

  • Auguste Forel
Date:
1907
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Credit: Hygiene of nerves & mind in health and disease / August Forel ; translated from the German by Austin Aikins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE CCORDING to the scientific theory of mon- ^ ism, or the Identity hypothesis—the only theory, in my opinion, which is consistent with the facts,—mind and hving brain are one and the same thing. See Forel, Brain and Mind ^; The Mental Powers of Ants; Monism and Psychology.^ From this it follows that our mental life, and there- fore our moral life too, is an expression of our brain life; and for this simple reason all the phenomena of mental life must be considered in any account of nervous or brain hygiene. Questions of social hygiene and of morals are more special. My conception of popular hygiene is that it en- ables an intelligent layman with a fair education to govern his life in such a way as to avoid diseases and abnormalities as far as possible for himself, his fel- lowmen, and his offspring, and to promote the health and strength of them all in every respect. Hygiene should in no wise supplant the expert ' Gehirn und Seele, E. Strauss, pub., Bonn. ^ Die Psychischen FahigJceiten der Ameisen, E. Reinhardt, pub. Munich. Ants and Some Other Insects, Kegan Paul, pub., London, 1904. ^ Monismus und Psychologie, Polit.-anthrop. Bevue, 1903.
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