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from time to time in such a way that the persons served may become happy.
The doctor thus gave valuable advice to the patients and insisted that they should put this advice into practice with immediate effect. He also appealed to the patients that they should cultivate the qualities of softness, sweetness, care, kindness, simplicity, tolerance and justness.
The Psychiatrist's Ego
The doctor adds that his patients, when they followed his tips regarding their nature and behaviour. achieved miraculous benefits and most of their complaints disappeared. Such patients would come again to thank the doctor. Thus, the doctor says, he succeeded in inost of the cases but this resulted in the doctor developing an undesirable kind of ego that inade him think that he had made tremedous progress in the science of mind and that he was gifted with a mind which readily suggested solutions to the problems of other people. That is to say, he suffered from a complex that he had a fertile brain. The result of this was that he always thought that other people rarely had such intuitions and insights so far as the problems of patients were concerned. He also held that in ages goneby. no one possessed such miraculous ability of the mind as he did.Thus, The doctor was overwhelmed by his own arrogance. But, on one occasion, it so happened that while he was sitting in his office, without any work, he started reading a page from the Bible which was lying on his table.
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