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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

1	    What do you consider to be mental malpractice? 

  	    Mental malpractice is a bland denial of Truth,
 3	and is the antipode of Christian Science. To
  	mentally argue in a manner that can disastrously
  	affect the happiness of a fellow-being — harm him
 6	morally, physically, or spiritually — breaks the Golden
  	Rule and subverts the scientific laws of being. This,
  	therefore, is not the use but the abuse of mental treat-
 9	ment, and is mental malpractice. It is needless to
  	say that such a subversion of right is not scientific. Its
  	claim to power is in proportion to the faith in evil, and
12	consequently to the lack of faith in good. Such false
  	faith finds no place in, and receives no aid from, the
  	Principle or the rules of Christian Science; for it denies
15	the grand verity of this Science, namely, that God, good,
  	has all power. 
  	    This leaves the individual no alternative but to re-
18	linquish his faith in evil, or to argue against his own
  	convictions of good and so destroy his power to be or
  	to do good, because he has no faith in the omnipotence
21	of God, good. He parts with his understanding of good,
  	in order to retain his faith in evil and so succeed with his
 
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 1	wrong argument, — if indeed he desires success in this
  	broad road to destruction.