PSYCHO-ANALYSIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 21 July 1922, Page 6

PSYCHO-ANALYSIS.

LECTURE BY DR. A. IZARD. \ I The first of a series of lectured I arranged in connection with the r*a<» time work of the Wellington branch t the New Zealand Red Cross was "iven q Tuesday by Dr. Arnold Izard. His S n£ ject was "Psycho-Analysis." Dr. Izard said that diseases or injuria, caused by the power of suggestion were curable by suggestion. It might be Kin ' forced by other means, such as hvpnn* tism, chiropractic, praying, anointins etc. The fact that these were so much in use at present showed the prevalence of neurotic diseases, also that the niedT cal profession did not realise enough th" influence of the mind over Psycho-neurotic symptoms, whether they were in the mind or the body, were due to conflict of primitive instincts i n th« sub-conscious mind. Here lay the primi tive instincts of sex, self-preservation* and nutrition, to which might be added a fourth, the herd instinct. From the herd instinct we derived that feelinir that to do certain things was "not cricket." This instinct was the greatest moral force we had in the world to-dayi it taught people to play the game of lift! Speaking of the conflict of the primi. tive instincts which was continual!* going on in the sub-conscious mind, Dr Izard stated that the whole object of education was sublimination— taking the psychic energy of primitive instincts that were egc-centric and harnessing them ta something of social use. Beneath th« veneer of civilisation the remains of these crude instincts were continuallT struggling for expression. * Psycho-analysis proper the lecturer described as the means employed for finding out what was wrong with a neurotic subject, what was wron°- with his sub-conscious mind. Psyeho-analygi. had not long been before the publicresearch was still going on in a widi field, and it did not do to be ton dogmatic.