Mental Medicine

"Mental Medicine" is a 1872 treatise by Warren Felt Evans on the subject of medial psychology, exploring the power of the mind and body to heal and other related psychological methods of treating people for diseases and ailments. Contents include: "The Gift and Art of Healing", "Qualifications of the Psychopathic Practitioner", "Conditions of the Patient Favorable to a Cure", "The Conscious Impressible State", "How to Induce the Impressible State", "Medical Psychology and the Limitations to its Abuse", "Auto-Magnetism or Self-Healing", etc. Warren Felt Evans (1817-1889) was an American author famous for his writings related to the New Thought movement, a movement originating from 19th century United States based upon the ideas that God exists everywhere, sickness originates in the mind, and that thinking "correctly" has the ability to heal. He became a proponent of the movement during 1863 as a result of seeking healing from Phineas P. Quimby, the movement's founder. Other notable works by this author include: "Mental Medicine" (1872), "Soul and Body" (1875), and "The Divine Law of Cure" (1881). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with an essay by William Al-Sharif.