Outwitting our nerves

INDEX

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Acid and Milk, 21, 257 Acidosis, 285 Adjustment a neurosis an effort at, 169 to new conditions causes consciousness, 82 of the race, in subconscious, 78 to the social whole, 164, 216, 380 Adolescence, 59 Adrenal Secretion, 42, 48, 133, 229, 270 Alcoholism, relation to unconscious desires, 377 Alvarez, W.D., 284 Ames, Thaddeus Hoyt, 170 Amnesia, 113 Anaemia, buttermilk in, 282 Anger, 47 ff. Anxiety and Fear, 366, 367, 368 Anxiety Neurosis, 7, 109 Anxious thought in conversion hysteria, 277 Appetite, symbolic loss of, 276 Association accidental, 341 a chain of, 191 free, 101, 191 making new, 329, 330 of ideas, 106 subconscious, 346 word test, 197, 198 Audience, secured in a neurosis, 169 Auto-eroticism, 57 Auto-intoxication, 279, 282 Automatic writing, 96, 97 Autonomic nervous system, 86, 126, 319 Auto-suggestion, 129, 210

Bacteria, in anaemia, sciatica, rheumatism, 281 Bashfulness, 46 Bergson, 90 Biliousness, 268 Birth-Theories, 158, 160, 161 Blocking, in word association, 198 Bodily Response to Emotional States, 134 Brain, diseased in insanity, sound in neurosis, 13 fag, 125, 241 records, 89 Bran fad, 291 Breuer, Joseph, 142 Brill, A.A., 58, 69, 201, 202 Bruce, H. Addington, 200, 201 Burrow, Trigant, 173, 203 Buttermilk in anaemia, 282

Cabot, Richard, 27, 381 Canfield, Dorothy, 231 Cannon, Walter B., 49, 134 Capitalizing an Illness, 170 Catechism, 247 Cathartics, 283 and acidosis, 286 and bacterial infection, 282 and child birth, 285, 286 and operations, 284 Causes of Nerves, 146, 164 Censor, psychic, 104, 195 Change of life, 314 Character and health, 24, 25, 362 Chemistry, 61, 190, 224, 225, 230, 247, 306, 315, 317, 324 Child, birth-theories of, 158 father to the man, 90 habit-fixation of, 150 love-life, four periods 54, 55 questions, 158 too much bossing of, 154 too much petting of, 57 training, 160 Childhood, bonds too strong, 72 determines future character, 91, 148 experiences, 149 reactions, 148 Choosing our Emotions, 360 a neurosis, 122, 169, 216 our Sensations, 339 Christian religion, 74, 374 Coe, George A., 71, 373 Colon, function of, 279, 280 Common Path, 52 Compensation, 168, 340 Complex, against marriage, 204 and conditioned reflex, 108 and personality, 105 breaking up of, 109, 186 buried, 187, 192, 197, 201, 202, 215 chance signs of, 198 definition, 107 dissociated, 111 emotional, 198, 345 father-mother, 152 feeling-tone of, 130 formation of, 129 forming a resistance, 159 making over, 187, 190 mother-son, 185 physiological, 108 repressed, 112, 157, 190 unconscious, 108 Compromise, 163, 164, 165 Compulsion neuroses, 7, 109, 156 Conditioned reflex, 108 Conduct, kind of, 168, 191, 360 Conflict, 59, 64, 112, 145, 154, 164, 178, 200, 218, 313, 372, 376 Conscience, 164, 173, 177, 196, 376 Consciousness, displaced threshold of, 91 relation to the subconscious, 82 rise of, 82 Constipation, 277 ff. and food, 289, 290 cure of, 294 due to suggestion, 294 purpose of, 288 Conversion-hysteria, 174, 236, 237, 238, 245, 277, 302 Crile, George W., 41, 44 Curiosity, child's concerning sex, 58 displacement over to scientific investigation, 45

Day-dreaming, 162, 325, 326 Defence-reaction, 365 Desire energy of, 78 in dreams, 194 in emotional habits, 364 in nervous disorders, 167 instinctive, 38 instinctive and ideals, 363 tensions of, 196 Diarrhoea, bacterial, 281 Dietetics, essence of, 254 Digestion, 86, 133, 250, 251 Disease, of the ego, 15 physical, 12, 13, 28 psychic, 12, 13, 14, 28 Disorders, functional and organic, 13 Displacement, 109, 110, 165, 174 Dissociation, 111 abnormal, 189 an example of, 92, 347 in hypnosis, 123 in hysteria, 111, 123 in neurasthenia, 111 increases suggestibility, 122 normal, 111 of a "Personality," 113 of memory picture of walking, 125 of power of sight, 170 Dreams, 193 ff. Freud's dictum, 193 latent content, 195 manifest content, 195 purpose of, 195 work of, 196 DuBois, Paul, 4, 127, 246, 327, 382

Education, 202, 218 in Emotional Control, 374 Emotion, 35, 360 ff. and complexes, 108 and fatigue, 229, 247 and instincts, 40 ff. and muscle tone, 137 blood-pressure in, 136 bodily response to, 133 feeling tones in, 130 precocious, 150 repressed (see repression) secretions in, 132 the strongest cement, 107 tonic and poisonous, 131 unrecognized desire in, 364 Energy, adaptable, 67 creative, 34, 69, 71 inhibited, 235 libido, 36, 252 misdirected, 28, 379 new level of, 221 physiological reserve, 117 redirection of, 385 releasers of, 245 three uses of, 23 utilization of, 68, 165 "Energies of Men", 221 Environment, 33, 96, 149, 334 Evolution, 73 Exhaustion, nervous, 216, 224, 243, 246 Explanation vs Suggestion, 206 ff.

Fads-dynamogenic, 252 Faith, 118 Family complex, 153 Fatigue, 219 ff. a Matter of Chemistry, 225 and insomnia, 326, 327 and moral tension, 166 and sex-repression, 235, 244 true and false, 223 Fear, 40 ff. exaggerated, 368 externalized, 368 of cold, 348 of fatigue, 219, 354 of food, 133, 251 of heat, 237 of noise, 355 physical effects of, 41 purpose of, 41 symbolic of desire, 368 Feeling our Feelings, 333 ff. Feeling-tones, 130, 206, 213, 229 Fermentation, 264 Finding New Vents, 379 Fixation of Habits, 150, 151, 162 Flat-foot, 138 Food, 254 ff. and constipation, 289, 290 for the children, 256 idiosyncrasies, 258 mixtures, 255 variety essential, 255 Foreconscious, 79 Free Association, 101, 191, 195 Freud, Sigmund, 69, 74, 83, 84, 104, 142, 149, 153, 163, 185, 188, 193, 210, 342, 376, 382 Freudian principles, 143, 144, 147 misconceptions concerning, 184, 185 Frink, H.W., 89, 107, 158, 162, 171, 195, 218

Gall-stones, 269 Gas on the stomach, 264 Gastric juice, 86, 134 Gastritis, 266 Genius, 116 Girard-Mangin, Dr., 231 Goitre, 239

Habit, defined, 150 dissociation, 189 dreaming, 162 fixation of, 150, 152 of insomnia, 322 of loving, 150, 164 of rebelling, 150, 164 of repressing normal instincts, 151 reactions, 364 Heredity, 148 Hidden desires, 363, 368 Hinkle, Bertha M., 154 Holt, E.B., 213 Homosexuality, 184 Hoover, Herbert A., 384 Hormone, 305, 319 Hudson, J.W., 91, 95 Hydrochloric Acid, 267 Hygiene, laws of, 127 moral, 206 Hygienic conditions, 222, 230 Hypersensitiveness, 342 Hypnosis, 84 ff. aid to diagnosis, 187 its drawbacks, 188 suggestibility in, 189 Hysteria, 7, 111 Hysterical pains, 353 Hysterical pregnancy, (case), 127

Ideas, and emotions, 23 ascetic, 253 contagion of, 120 dynamogenic, 253 not surgical, 262 Idiosyncrasies, physical, 258 Identification, 110 Imagination, 162 Incantation, 211 Indigestion; 211, 250 Inferiority complex, 340, 380 Inhibition, 188, 245, 293, 306, 330, 377 Insomnia, 322 ff. Instincts and their Emotions, 33 ff., 51 ff. Instincts, beneficent, 85 energy releasers, 233 race-inheritance, 85 repressed, 28, 103, 147, 169, 172 sex (see under sex) thwarted, 235, 244, 340, 356, 367, 379 Internal Secretion, of ovary, 316, 317 (see Adrenal) (see Thyroid) Introspection, 26 Introversion, 380, 381

James, William, 49, 221, 227, 243, 253, 347, 382 Janet, Pierre, 188 Jealousy, 154, 380 Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 98, 114, 153, 163 Jones, Ernest, 69 Judicious neglect, 127 Jung, C.G., 8, 64, 69, 163, 197, 380

Kempf, Edward J., 86 Kinaesthetic sensations, 336

Latency period, 60 Libido, 36, 147, 252 Liver trouble, 268

Masturbation, 184 McDougall, Wm., 49, 122, 372 Memories, 84 ff. Menopause, 314 Menstruation, 306 Mind (see Consciousness and Subconscious) Misconceptions, about the body, 21, 22 about theory of sex, 184 Mixtures, fear of, 257 Monogamy, 63 Moral hygiene, 206 Mosher, Clelia Duel, 308 Muscle-tone, 137, 244 Myth, 146

Narcissus, 55, 152, 340 Nausea, 101, 177, 275 of pregnancy, 319 Nerves, attitude toward, 3 causes of, 28, 148 drama of, 10, 29 medical schools and, 16 not physical, 14 prevention of, 385 Neurasthenia, 111, 246 Neuritis, 14, 244 Neurosis, a compromise, 167 a confidence game, 179 a failure of sublimation, 381 a flight from reality, 170 an ethical struggle, 177 an introversion, 381 and shell-shock, 147 and suggestion, 129 anxiety, 7, 109 awkwardness of, 213 compulsion, 109 caused by buried complexes, 108, 190 definition 112 origin in childhood, 149, 157, 217 purpose of, 167 root-complex of, 153

Obsession, 7, 204 Oedipus Complex, 154 Organic trouble, 11, 12, 251 Ouija Board, 97 Over-awareness, 352 Over-compensation, 67 Over-determined, 148

Pain, at base of the brain, 351 chronic hysterical, 341 menstrual, 306 Personality, alterations of, 7, 15, 20 and emotions, 362, 369 and will, 372 choice by, 216 complexes and, 107 disrupted, 382 multiple, 111, 131 nervousness a disorder of, 15 reverence for, 383 unified, 375 Persuasion, 206 Pfister, Oskar, 153, 166, 382 Phantasy, 153, 163 Phobia, 7, 368 Plagiarism, 98 Popular Misconceptions, 21 Prince, Morton, 79, 84, 89, 95, 97, 112, 132, 188, 347 Psycho-analysis, 189 ff. Psychological explanation, 208 Psychology, 25, 27, 94 Psycho-neurosis, 144, 147, 163, 169 (see also neurosis) Psycho-therapy, 74, 187, 216 Ptosis, 139, 251 Putnam, James J., 3, 34, 69, 215, 366, 370, 382

Race-memories, 84 Rationalization, 90, 155, 168, 317 Reaction and over-reaction, 149, 198, 202, 238, 335 Reality, flight from, 164, 379 Re-education, 183 ff. Reflex, conditioned, 108 physiological, 349 Regression to infantile state, 163, 164 case of, 92 Religion, 74, 89, 374, 382 Reminiscences, hysteric suffers from, 7 Repression, 104, 156, 160, 162, 235, 245, 304 Resistance, 160, 188, 192, 202, 211 Rest-cure, 246 Rheumatism, buttermilk treatment of, 282 Rixford, Emmet L., 283 Royce, Josiah, 375

Sadler, Wm., 126, 136 School, four grade, 54 Second wind, 221 Self-abuse, 184, 238 Self-pity, 365 Self-regard, 45, 103, 157, 374 Sensations, lowered threshold to, 333 ff. Sensitiveness, 333, 340 Sex, and artistic creation, 379 and "Nerves," 141 ff. glands, secretion of, 305, 314, 316 instinct organically aroused, 65 instinct thwarted, 161, 367, 379 instruction, 160 license, 184 life, 143, 146, 157 perversion, 152 phantasy, 163 psychic component of, 185, 356, 379, 383 repressed, 104 sublimation of, 233, 379 Shell-shock, (see foreword) also 145, 147 Sherrington, Chas., 39 Sick-headache, 270 Sidis, Boris, 24, 84, 188, 222, 337, 341 Slips of tongue, etc., 199 Slogan, of psychoanalytic school, 215 woman's, 314 Social code, 184 Soda, misuse of, 266 "Sour-stomach," 260, 266 Sprees, 376 Stammering, 200 Standard, double, 66 single, 62 Stomach, 133 and conversion hysteria, 250 ff. fads, 252 gas on, 252 Subconscious mind, 77 ff. amenable to control by suggestion, emotion, 119 functions of, 85, 335, 337 habits of, 105, 259 physical expression of, 245 playing confidence game, 311 store-house of memories, 84, 89 tireless, 325 Sublimation, 379 ff. a synthesis, 164 and religion, 74, 382 definition (Freud), 69, 70 failure of, 71, 147, 381 in a career, 385 in artistic creation, 68 natural trends of, 383 of energy, 178, 238, 309 Success, measure of, 380 Sugar in urine, 133 Suggestion, a method of psychotherapy, 208 constipation the result of, 289, 298 definition, 121 false, 302 in child training, 121 in hypnosis, 99, 188 in sleep, 99 inconvenient forms of, 296 power of, 45 unhealthy, 310 Suggestibility, 122, 189, 206 Superman, 339 Symbolism, 171, 176, 275, 342 Symptoms, purpose of, 168

Taboos, dietary, 250 ff. interest in, 289 Tensions, psychic, 69, 85, 353, 366 Thresholds, psychic, 337 ff. Thyroid secretion, 42, 133, 185, 270 Transference, 109, 193, 264 Trotter, W., 46

Unconscious, (see subconscious)

Venereal disease, 304, 317 Vitamins, 255

White, Wm. A., 69, 82, 83, 98 Will, 371 Williams, Tom A., 21, 213 Wish fulfilment, 171, 194, 200, 214 Word-association test, 197 Work-cure, 385

ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CASES

Adolescence and depression, 312, 313 Anger and circulation, 136 Angina pectoris, false, 129 Anxiety-neurosis, 175

Bearing children, 318 Brain fag, 241 Bran crackers and prunes, 258

Cathartics, abuse of, 284 Childhood sex-reactions, 203 Constipation and lacerations in labor, 296 Constipation and Mineral Oil, 295 Constipation, recovery from, (some cases), 294 Contamination, fear of, 159 Conversion of moral distress to physical, 348

Danger-signals and the railroad man, 344 Dissociated state, memories in, 92

Emotion and sick-headache, 273 "Enjoying" poor health, 213, 345 "Exhaustion," 243 Eye-strain, twenty-five years, 274

Fatigue, 228, 234, (two cases), 239 Fatigue and emotion, (three cases), 354 Fear, 237, of heat, 237 Fear of air, 348, 349 Fear of cold, (three cases), 348, 349 Fear of light, (two cases), 350 Fear complicating labor, 320 "Flat-foot," 137 Forgetting and repressed wish, 200 Free-love, chemical cause of, 317

Gall-stones, 269

Idiosyncrasy for eggs, 212 Insomnia and attention, 329 Insomnia and point of view, 328 Insomnia and wrong associations, 330 Insomnia, chronic, 328

Library, child fear of, 100 Locomotor Ataxia, exaggeration of symptoms, 128

Menstrual pain, unnecessary, 220 Muscle-tumors, phantom, 127, 128

Nausea, in sex-repression, 101, 177 Nervous indigestion, 211 "Neuritis," 174, false, 244 Noise, fear of, 355

Obsession against marriage, 204

Paralysis, fear of, 345, 346 Physical illness mistaken for functional, 252 Plagiarism, 98

Recovering lost word, 80 Repression and disgust, 199

Sick-headache, 271, 274 Skim-milk diet, 262 "Sour stomach" and two Tyrolese, 260

Temper, an indulgence, 359 The "Repeater" gains in weight, 263 Thyroid disturbance, fatigue in, 239, 240

Unconscious Association and symptoms, 346

Walking, lost power of, 124 Word Association test, 198