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Any form of belief in mental healing other than (1) ChristianScience and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle isaffirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction thatman produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by theadoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeutic doctrine itstands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory thatall diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying ideathe inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the oldthought of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation.The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, usedin England.
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