ABSTRACT
But for all that, the theory would not stand up to careful analysis. Instead these are symptoms of a limited number of diseases – and symptoms can be kept in check. The situation could be compared to a cardiac patient suffering from many aches and pains. If the patient believes (or imagines) he is suffering from more than one disease, rather than different symptoms of the same one, he will waste time, money and energy trying to pinpoint each one. Treating the symptoms separately will not help cure the original disease, which produced all the symptoms in the first place.
