CURE FOR UNHAPPINESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18760, 17 July 1935, Page 13

CURE FOR UNHAPPINESS

TEAtNOTG UiCHib

MMfAh ILLS

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May 20. The training of doctors to make people happy ih mind as well as in body was urged iii a lecture, "The Temperamental Factor in Industry," delivered by Profeasor M. .Greenwood at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Melicin'e.

the real criticism of medern industrial'jife/sauil .Professor Greenwood; is tjot that peppl© are unhealthy in body, but that .they are unhappy in mind. A certain level of physical comfort lias become general. }Jut people are asking for something more—for happiness. Professor 'Gr.eeriwpQd asked: ''Can utilisation qf the truths about tempera which ; th'o old. physicians' discov ered .be brpright -within the compass oi ordinary men and women?" * The professor pointed out that Galen'f whole theory of medicine which w.t fohndechwii the. doctrine-of temperament "?00-'years ago, ;was probably- loss a-hrd-than the'modem attempt to classify beings acCottliftp; to tlie strength *f" pf their ductless glands adrenals, thytoid, thymus or pituitaryEMOTIONAL FACTORS

,; "As the science of psvchology de■'oiops,'" the professor stated, "increasing : ii.tc'irt'ipn is being paid to-the emotional and temperamental factors. It is realis'ed. more' and 'more how easily enwtionnl distiiihahces may result in bodily ills ihancani be 1 cured only by dealing with aiihir psychological causes. ; , "This"is usually regarded as nn essen■tifi.ily ..modern' dc'yelojiirienl, but, ■('-Jnlen. 'iilly realif-ed. 1 -the• importanV-o, of omo>iof>nl stall's in causing physical illness, yo.t. in spite of the. impiWanVo of pSyplipiogical factors in the modern indns:?i;iai systeni, ihe ordinary general prnc-; tlttpnW' still receives no definite psycho logical training." ■' . The majority of people to-day, said, .J'jofcs.sor G.re.eii,wood, arc fighting _less ; against conditions which lead to bodily ills, but niore against conditions winch lead to mental 'ills, and against an ,hn-; ■rtiehsei aihohnt. of psychological mal- : adjustment. And <|octors should be, Iraihed to combat it.