From: Dick Cleek Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Snake Thompson - the Article Date: 3 May 1995 13:32:20 GMT I'd like to thank the librarian who suggested that not everything in the card catalog is on-line and the librarian who rooted around in storage to find this volume. Dick Cleek ----------------------------------------------- Thompson, J.C. "Psychoanalytic Literature" United States Naval Medical Bulletin, 1922?, v.19, #3, p.281-285. article begins about halfway down p.281 ----------------------------------------------- p281 PSYCHOANALYTIC LITERATURE By J.C. Thompson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy There are a great many medical officers in the Navy who desire to acquire a much more thorough training in one of the specialties than their routine college course was able to offer, or for which there was time in the curriculum of the Naval Medical School. When these seekers turn for further knowledge to the field of bacteriology, hygiene, or eye and ear, for example, there is no difficulty in promptly becoming acquainted with what is the best literature on the subject. They have but to consult one of the standard textbooks so generously supplied to them by the department and there will be found references ample for many months of study. In the province of psychoanalysis, owing to its being the most recent theoretical and practical contribution to the art of healing the sick, the bibliography seems to be curiously secreted from general accessibility. This at times is due to the lack of precision with which the word is used, especially in the book shops; its etymology is looked up by the junior clerks, "soul analysis" accepted as its meaning, and thereupon psychoanalytic material is placed on the same shelf with every conceivable variety of book, some dealing with the strangest of human emotions. The term "psychoanalysis" in medicine applies strictly to the discovery made by Freud of the technic employed in studying and curing certain nervous diseases. These are the psychoneuroses. ------------------------------------------------------- p282 paragraph continues... They are classified as the true neuroses, such as hysteria, compulsion neurosis, the obsessions, anxiety hysteria, and the phobias; also as the actual or somatic neuroses, such as neurasthenia and anxiety neurosis. The field of application of psychoanalytic therapy has been vastly expanded by the American school, so as now to include the return to a certain degree of social usefulness and even unto the complete repair of some of the severe psychoses. The leaders in psychoanalysis in this country are White, Kempf, Brill, and Jelliffe. Psychoanalysis deals purely with the unconscious motivation (cause) of human behavior. Man has two fundamental instincts--one for self-preservation and the other for race propagation. The most important emotion of the self-preservation urge is hunger. The sole emotion of the race-propagation urge is libido. Libido is the energy which gives rise to the entire gamut of human activities. The character and personality of the individual depends upon the manner in which he acquires energy, converts it into libido, and releases it in procreation, in socially useful creations, in developing and maintaining a neurosis, or in perversions and crime. The person who is happily married, raising a family, handling his economic situation with success and who has the time and strength to spare for cultural (intellectual) improvement, is utilizing his libido in accordance with the highest psychoanalytic principles. Those who on the other hand are physically sound but who are failing to measure up to the Freudian standards of fertility, efficiency, and happiness (Kempf) are in trouble due entirely to a faulty expenditure of the libidinous energy. The dictum of Freud on this subject is inexorable: "In a normal vita sexualis no neurosis is possible." Libido manifests itself in a perplexingly varied range of activities. Constructively it is the power from which springs the most brilliant enterprises of man, in science, engineering, literature, and the arts. Destructively, when misunderstood and mishandled, it is the cause of all the neurotic symptoms such as fatigue, irritability, insomnia, the psychoneuroses such as anxiety, morbid fears, hysteria, and neurasthenia. Finally to it may be attributed the true insanities, the perversions, and no end of criminal acts. Psychoanalysis is the technic of discovering the hidden unconscious motive for behavior or conduct which is deleterious to the health and happiness of the individual. When the analyst has uncovered the unconscious motive for a certain neurotic symptom and this motive is understood by the ----------------------------------------------------------- p283 paragraph continues... patient the symptom regularly disappears. This uncovering of the hidden motive does not consist in the mere explaining to the patient the mechanism of his plight. The understanding alone comes from the analytic technic of free association and subsequent rational synthesis. At the present time there is no general textbook on psychoanalysis. The most accessible volume to the naval medical officer is the last edition of Diseases of the Nervous System, by Jelliffe and White. The chapter on the psychoneuroses is one that, if read and at all times held clearly in mind, would prove to be a rarely valuable accession to one's diagnostic acumen. From this the student would do well to go over a half dozen or so of the titles listed under the heading of general literature. To stress any of them in particular would almost be unwarranted. Every one of the books will amply repay the reader. To begin with, it might be best to choose Psychoanalysis; Its History, Theory,a nd Practice, by the late Andre Tridon. The student who intends becoming well versed in the art had then better turn to Psychoanalysis, by Brill, and to The Technique of Psychoanalysis, by Jelliffe. When the contents of these volumes are understood one is then prepared to read the works of Freud, preferably in the following sequence: Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses, and finally The Interpretation of Dreams. It is only fair to state that the latter citation, without any doubt, will require harder study to master than any work of its size in our medical library. Psychoanalysis relating, as it does, to the study of human behavior is by no means confined to the neuroses. It has the widest application in the critical investigation of the primitive urges that underlie the drama, poetry, art, mythology, folk-lore, and the customs and ceremonial practices of primitive folk. For those who care to approach these subjects from the standpoint of the analyst there are listed few titles under the caption of literati. The medical man confronted with some of the bewildering problems of child culture, such as nocturnal enuresis, obstinacy, food prejudices, stuttering, marked disobedience or falsehood, will find themselves far better able intelligently to advise the parent if some of the psychoanalytic work relating to children is gone over. The outstanding monograph dealing with this phase is from the pen of Dr. H. Von Hug-Hellmuth. She has made exhaustive observations concerning the latent and awakening sexual activities of children. Knowledge of her writings is essential to an understanding of the endless curious and capricious acts of the child. It is --------------------------------------------------------- p284 paragraph continues... just exactly these which, if misinterpreted and stupidly handled by the parent, may result in psychic trauma. Unfortunate episodes of this kind occurring in childhood may be directly related to some of the most serious neurotic illnesses in the adult. Above all are these childhood impressions absolutely and unequivocally responsible for endless marital distress. It is essential that the advanced student early in his career become thoroughly acquainted with the work of Kempf, especially his Psychopathology. This is one of the most important and original works on psychic disturbances that has been written by any English-speaking psychologist. It touches upon all types of neurotic symptoms, which range from little personal habits and idiosyncracies at the beginning to the terminal mental dilapidation of the incurable insane. This volume is profusely illustrated from the modern arts, sculpture, and institutional inmates. Those who seriously take up psychoanalysis as their specialty must make a thorough review of the writings of White, not only those relating to psychopathology, but those which discuss the broader philosophical principles of human behavior. The advanced student will find a number of invaluable papers published in the Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series; also in the Psychoanalytic Review, a quarterly devoted exclusively to psychoanalysis. BIBLIOGRAPHY. FOR THE GENERAL READER. Fielding. Psychoanalysis: The Key to Human Behavior Jackson and Salisbury. Outwitting Our Nerves. Tridon. Psychoanalysis; Its History, Theory and Practice. Tridon. Psychoanalysis and Behavior. Tridon. Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams. Tridon. Easy Lessons in Psychoanalysis. Brill. Fundamental Conceptions of Psychoanalysis. Freud. Psychopathology of Everyday Life. Coriat. What is Psychoanalysis? Coriat. Dream Analysis. O'Higgins. The Secret Springs. Lay. Man's Unconscious Life. Lay. Man's Unconscious Passion. Lay. Man's Unconscious Spirit. Holt. A Brief Account of the Freudian Theory. Stekel. Disguises of Love. Stekel. The Beloved Ego. Stekel. The Depths of the Soul. Bjerre. History and Practice of Psychoanalysis. Fielding. Sanity in Sex. Fielding. The Cave Man Within. Healey. Mental Conflicts. -------------------------------------------------------- p285 biblio.continues... Healey. The Individual Delinquent. Hitchman. Freud's Theory of the Neuroses. Hunt. The Hidden Self and Its Mental Processes. White. Thoughts of a Psychiatrist on War and After. White. Principles of Mental Hygiene. White. Mechanisms of Character Formation. Freud. Reflections on War and Death. FOR THE LITTERATI Freud. Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. Jelliffe and Brink. Psychoanalysis and the Drama. Stekel. Poetry and the Neuroses. Riklin. Wish Fulfillment and Symbolism and the Drama. Abrahams. Dreams and Myths. Rank. Myth of the Birth of the Hero. Jung. Psychology of the Unconscious. Coriat. Repressed Emotions. FOR THE PARENT Pfister. Psychoanalysis in the Service of Education. Hug-Hellmuth. A Study of the Mental Life of the Child. Lay. The Child's Unconscious Mind. Evans. The Problem of the Nervous Child. White. The Mental Hygiene of the Child. FOR THE PRACTICING PHYSICIAN Jelliffe and White. Diseases of the Nervous System. White. Outlines of Psychiatry. Kempf. Psychopathology. Brill. Psychoanalysis. Jelliffe. The Technique of Psychoanalysis. Pfister. The Psychoanalytic Method. White. The Foundations of Psychiatry. Jones. Treatment of the Psychoneuroses. Adler. The Neurotic Constitution. FOR THE ADVANCED STUDENT Freud. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex. Freud. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Freud. Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses. Freud. The Interpretation of Dreams. Jones. Papers on Psychoanalysis. Firenczi. Sex in Psychoanalysis. Stekel. Sex and Dreams. Monographs. Nervous and Mental Diseases Mono. Series. Journal. Psychoanalytic Review. ---------------------------------------- article by J.B.Pollard on CHRONIC COLITIS follows on p285 ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Re: "Snake" Thompson book? From: referen@bway.net (Diane Richardson) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:45:40 GMT -------- On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 06:38:21 GMT, jiriki3@my-deja.com wrote: >Is this the rumored "Snake" Thompson book? Yes, that's it. It's actually nothing more than a bibliography - a recommended reading list for those interested in learning more about the subject. The "book" is actually nothing more than a reprint or offprint of the bibliography he authored for the U.S. Navy Medical Bulletin.. He also had two or three other articles published in that journal. Snake Thompson was doing physical exams on Navy and Marine recruits at the U.S. Navy Recruiting office on Gay St. in Baltimore, MD, at the time. He was not a psychiatrist, but had a great deal of interest in the subject. Thompson merits a footnote in the history of psychoanalysis in the U.S. in only a very minor way. While stationed in Baltimore doing intake physicals for the Navy, he befriended a young psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Hospital named Clara Thompson (no relation). She began analysis under Snake and became very close to him, which resulted in her dismissal from the Hopkins staff. Clara Thompson went on to become a major figure in the field of psychoanalysis. Snake Thompson was transferred to California, where he continued doing physical exams until his retirement. >Thompson, Joseph Cheesman, 1874-? >Psycholanalytic Literature >Washington, Govt. print off, 1923 > >He is also listed as co-authoring a couple of books on snakes, one for >the SF Bay Area. Thompson's contributions to the field of herpatology appear much more significant than anything he did in medicine. Diane Richardson referen@bway.net ======== Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology Subject: Anti-Spam Psych Info Letter #3 From: "antivirus" Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 23:29:26 GMT -------- Those of us who have read Dianetics: Modern Science of Mental Health and Hubbard's obsession with pregnant women, knitting needles and attempted abortions will recognize some oddly similar sentiments in the excerpt below. Commander Joseph Thompson was a Freudian analyst, and Hubbard's alleged tutor. U.S. Naval Medical Bulletin, Vol XXI, December 1924 No. 6. (Copyright unknown) The Psychoanalyst And His Work by J. C. Thompson, Commander, Medical Corps, United States Navy [...] Every person without exception who has a neurotic symptom has two other things: he has a feeling of, inferiority and some unpleasant problem or conflict that he is finding difficult to solve in a satisfactory and efficient manner. These neurotic symptoms are one and all developed by the unconscious mind to compensate for this feeling of inferiority, and to afford an escape from the unpleasant problem with which he is confronted. Take the hysterical vomiting of pregnancy, for example. The analyst can be certain that the expected addition to the family is unwelcome to the mother. It may be from lack of love for the husband; it may be from fear of his fidelity during the period when she will be prevented from going about with him; it may be that she has been in some mischief of sorts and is afraid that the paternity of the illegitimate father may be evidenced in hair, eyes, or coloring of the infant; it may be that, she does not want the disfigurement and the interruption of certain social activities. All these and many other factors must be borne in mind by the discerning analyst. The unconscious mind of the neurotic patient then reasons on this subject about as follows: "I have done a very stupid thing in having allowed conception to take place, when so many of my friends are so much smarter and have prevented it." Now, all we have to do is to think we have been stupid or less smart than those about us, when we will promptly develop a feeling of inferiority, which makes us wretched, unhappy, and inefficient; this is a neurosis. Now, the pregnant patient, facing a problem which is disagreeable, employs the neurotic device of continuous vomiting in the endeavor to escape from the impending confinement and additional child. The unconscious mind again reasons about as follows: "Now, if you will only vomit your food, you will become poorly nourished and with any kind of luck the straining and pressure upon the abdominal contents will cause you to abort naturally; but if this does not happen, all you have to do is to stay with it, keep on vomiting, and your friends will become deeply concerned, your family physician will call a consultation, and surgical interference with the pregnancy will be described. Now, this is exactly what the unconscious mind of the patient desired; the abortion will be performed amid the sympathy of attentive friends, and this will convert the patient's feeling of inferiority, of having been stupid and in bad luck, into a feeling of being of some importance in her little world; for are not doctors and nurses and friends vieing with each other in their endeavor to bring about a realization of her most profound wishes-that is, the avoiding of having a child? The symptom of the hysterical vomiting of pregnancy is therefore the disguised expression of an unconscious wish. This is the mechanism of a large group of hysterical symptoms. [...] Compare this with Hubbard's DMSMH, especially Book 2, Chapter 10 Preventative Dianetics antivirus Posted under fair use and in the public interest