ABNORMAL psychology, or the study of ab- normal mental phenomena, is one of the late developments of scientific medicine. It is not a mere fad, as some of its critics would attempt to make us believe, neither has it sprung up like a mushroom, within a single night. Ab- normal psychology is the outcome of the work of small groups of investigators in France, Germany, and America, within the last twenty- five years. Beginning with a study of the phenomena of hypnosis, these researches gradu- ally developed into a series of brilliant psycho- logical discoveries. The most important of these is the principle of dissociation or of splitting of the mind. In a general way we speak of these matters as the theory of the subconscious. This theory has not only thrown an immense amount of light on the nature of human personality, but other peculiar phenom- ena, such as losses of memory or amnesia, automatic writing, crystal gazing, and such dis- eases as neurasthenia, hysteria, psychasthenia, have...

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