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Excerpt from The Quest for Health and Happiness NO man can be a specialist in more than one subject, and any work the minister may do in the treatment of functional disorders must in the end suffer in comparison with the work done by the trained physician who combines with his knowledge of psychology his knowledge of medicine. If, however, it is not wise to commit the Church to such a large movement as the one outlined by Dr. Worcester or Bishop Fallows, the very chaotic condition of the American mind makes it imperative that the leaders of thought should take some decisive action. Nothing could be more striking to the student of this question than the marked contrast between the attitude of the general public of Paris or Berlin toward psychotherapy and that of the American pub lic. Here in America the attitude is either one of wonder over what seem such unaccountable cures or one of unqualified and almost fanatical devotion to some new and startling creed 01. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.