Trains, Brains, and Sprains: Railway Spine and the Origins of Psychoneuroses -- Psychosomatic Backlash -- From the Spine to the Brain: A Functional Reassessment -- Railway Surgeons Respond -- Suggestion and American Railway Surgery -- Avoiding Psychotherapy: Neurasthenia and the Limits of Somatic Therapy -- The Significance of Patient-Centered Therapeutics -- The Role of Rapport -- Neurasthenic Therapy: Soma not Psyche -- Inventing Psychotherapy: The American Mind Cure Movement, 1830-1900 -- Mental Healing in America: Controversies and Consensus -- The Early Disciples: Warren Felt Evans and Mary Baker Eddy -- Midwestern Mind Cure -- New Thought and the Challenge to Christian Science -- Physicians Respond -- Flirting with Psychotherapy: Somatic Intransigence and the "Advanced Guard" -- Demedicalizing the Mind -- The Maintenance of Psychological Medicine -- Somatic Intransigence -- The Advanced Guard and the Challenge to Somaticism -- Enduring Somaticism: 1906-1908 -- Embracing Psychotherapy: The Emmanuel Movement and the American Medical Profession -- The Program Begins -- The Movement Spreads -- In the Public Eye -- Medical Opposition: The Quest for Control -- The New York and Boston Controversies -- Clerical Opposition -- Psychological Opposition -- Final Defense
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