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There is always the initial attempt to handle problems on a mental and psychic level. Physical illness represents the failure to deal with these sufficiently or effectively, and in all cases the intensity and severity of physical illness is in proportion to the severity and intensity of the inner problem.

A chronic and longlasting physical symptom therefore represents for example a chronic, fairly enduring inner problem. There is of course subconscious symbolism involved in the course of the illness itself. There is also a deeper psychic symbolism.

You chose, both of you, the two people who are the most psychically gifted of your acquaintance, and you called them here. You called them because the illness of the animal served to tell you that some extra reinforcement would be helpful. The whole affair was psychically logical, and followed inner patterns that aided all of you.

You understand the therapeutic results of explosive laughter. I will not dwell on this then. The explosive laughter however was in direct proportion to the inner tensions. From the first signs of Ruburt’s illness you both took precisely the correct steps. The illness itself was a regrettable, but on the whole beneficial act, for if it had not occurred, and if the inner problems had not been worked out psychically, then a more serious illness could have been the result.