INDEX
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Adenoids, and mental backwardness, 23, 26;
and sulkiness, 70-71.
Anger, effects of, 87-92.
Ayres, L. P., 6, 7, 24.
Bashfulness, 167-187;
two types of, 171-172;
causes, 171-176;
cure, 177-186;
prevention, 186-187, 202-203.
Bechterew, W., 165, 180-181, 185.
Binet, A., 3, 5, 9.
Binet-Simon tests, 9-10, 13-17.
Bohannon, E. W., 41-46, 48-49.
Brill, A. A., 47, 58, 182-184, 234-237, 244-248, 251, 255-257.
Cannon, W. B., 90, 91, 93.
Cases:
Abnormal irritability, 251-253.
Abnormal timidity, 253-255.
Bashfulness, 165-169, 177-185.
Binet's dullard, 3-4.
Binet-Simon experiments, 13-18.
Crime from jealousy, 99-101.
Curable dullness, 11-13, 18-19, 21-24, 25-28, 70-71.
"Day terrors," 276-278.
Fear of blood, 255-258.
Fear of insanity, 284-287.
Hysteria from jealousy, 103-105.
Hysterical paralysis, 139-147
Indecision, 188-191, 195-198.
Jealous dullards, 113-114.
Jealousy of mother, 116-118.
Mental backwardness from physical causes, 21-24, 25-28.
Nervous depression, 134-139.
Nervous dullards, 11-13.
"Night terrors," 273-274, 280-283, 284-287.
Obsession of sin, 266-267.
Obsession to murder, 122-123.
Obsession to torture, 244-249.
"Only children," 37-40, 50-51, 54-55.
Pathological lying, 263-265.
Physiology of emotions, 88-89, 91, 93-94.
Stammering, 211-212, 214-215, 218-220, 226-237.
Sulkiness, 67-69, 70-71, 72-73, 77-79.
Unemployability, 63-65.
Children's lies, 119-121, 263-265.
Chorea, 74-75.
Chubb, P., 250.
Coriat, I. H., 48, 226n, 230-233.
Cornman, O. P., 5, 7.
Crime, causes and prevention, 155-157.
Cruelty, sexual element in, 160.
Dark, fear of the, 258-260.
Darwin, C., 107, 172.
Dattner, B., 226-230.
Davidson, P. E., 28.
"Day terrors", 276-279.
Dearborn, G. V. N., 95.
Dieffenbach, J. F., 207, 208, 209, 238.
Divorce, statistics of, 152-153;
causes, 154-155, 159.
Dream-analysis, 117, 135, 252, 291-295.
Dubois, P., 79.
Ellis, H., 47, 84-85, 160.
Exercise, and moral control, 200-201.
Eye-strain, and mental backwardness, 26;
and sulkiness, 72-73.
Fairy tales, 243-265;
harmful effects, 244-249, 251-261;
good effects, 249-251, 263, 265;
the war and, 261-262.
Favorite child, the, 55-59.
Feeble-mindedness. See Mental backwardness.
Fiske, C. H., 91.
Fresh air, and moral control, 200.
Freud, S., 234.
Gesell, A. L., 107.
Hall, G. S., 120, 263-265.
Hartenberg, P., 168, 184.
Holmes, A., 18.
Hypnotism, 229, 232.
Imitation, 79-80.
See also Suggestion.
Indecision, morbid, 187-203;
causes of, 194-199;
cure and prevention, 199-203.
Indigestion, and sulkiness, 66-68.
Inferiority, feeling of, 81-82, 113-114.
Insanity, causes and prevention, 157-158.
Jealousy, 99-128;
crimes caused by, 99-101;
parental attitude to, 101-102;
and disease, 103-106, 116-123;
in early infancy, 107;
causes, 107-115;
prevention, 123-127.
Jones, E., 296, 298.
Kyle, D. B., 212.
Luckey, G. W. A., 30.
Marriage, 151-161.
Maxwell, W. H., 7.
Mental backwardness, extent of, 5-6;
causes, 6-7, 9-13, 18-25, 28-30;
treatment, 25-28;
agencies to correct, 31-32.
Mental training, need for early, 126-127, 187.
Moral training, need for early, 29-30, 38-39, 48-49, 52-55, 76-79, 106-107, 132-134, 149, 157-159, 199, 203, 240, 287.
Mosso, A., 243.
Meyerson, A., 144-146.
"Nagging," 82.
Nervous disorders, and backwardness, 12-13;
"only children" and, 44, 48;
faulty training and, 48-50;
"favorite children" and, 56-58;
and sulkiness, 67-69, 72-75, 84;
and jealousy, 103-107, 115-123;
and selfishness, 132-150;
bashfulness and, 175-186;
indecision and, 188-191, 194-199;
stammering and, 222-239;
fairy tales and, 244-249, 251-260;
"night terrors" and, 276, 284.
"Night terrors," 271-299;
description, 272-274;
traditional explanation, 274;
modern view, 275-283;
need for treatment, 284-287;
prevention, 287-299.
Also mentioned, 38, 39, 254.
Only child, the, 37-55;
nervousness of, 44, 47-48;
precocity, 44;
social inadaptability, 44-45;
effeminacy, 46;
in adult life, 47-48;
how spoiled, 48-55.
O'Shea, M. V., 108.
Physiology of emotions, 87-95.
"Poltergeists," 119-120.
Precocity, 44.
Psychological clinics in United States, 31-32.
Putnam, J. J., 48.
Race conservation, 304-306.
Religious instruction, 265-267.
Retardation. See Mental backwardness.
Rowan, C. L., 213.
Selfishness, 131-161;
and nervous disorders, 132-150;
and marriage, 151-161.
Sex, mental conflict regarding, 83-85, 296-299;
education in, 159-161.
Sidis, B., 190, 192, 284-287.
Simon, Professor, 9.
Somnambulism, 289-290.
Stammering, 207-240;
Dieffenbach and, 207-208;
peculiarities of, 210-217;
psychological treatment, 220-221, 225-238;
causes, 221-225, 238;
organic disease and, 226n;
difficulty of cure, 239;
prevention, 239-240.
Suggestion, 53, 80, 125, 224, 225.
Sulkiness, significance of, 65-66;
causes and treatment, 66-86;
physiological effects, 87-94.
Teeth, and mental backwardness, 26;
and sulkiness, 71-72, 75.
Underfeeding, and sulkiness, 69.
Wallin, J. E. W., 11-18.
Walsh, J. J., 148, 194n.
White, W. A., 260.
Williams, T. A., 67, 68, 259, 276-280.
Witmer, L., 20, 21, 23, 25, 28, 31.
Wood, P. R., 73.
Worry, effects of, 92-94.