memories of usual sanatorium methods, but with the
equipment of a fuller self-knowledge and sense of power, they have
sent back a call for some word that shall extend this helpful message
to a larger circle.

There has come, too, a demand for a book which shall give accurate and
up-to-date information to those physicians who are eager for light on
the subject of nervous disorders, and especially for knowledge of the
significant contributions of Sigmund Freud, but who are too busy to
devote time to highly technical volumes outside their own specialties.

This need for a simple, comprehensive presentation of the Freudian
principles I have attempted to meet in this primer of psychotherapy,
providing enough of biological and psychological background to make
them intelligible, and enough application and illustration to make
them useful to the general practitioner or the average layman.

JOSEPHINE A. JACKSON.

Pasadena, California, 1921.

CONTENTS

PART I: THE STRANGE WAYS OF NERVES

CHAPTER I
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In which most of us plead guilty to the charge of "nerves."

NERVOUS FOLK 3

CHAPTER II

In which we learn what "nerves" are not and get a hint of
what they are.

THE DRAMA OF NERVES 10

PART II: "HOW THE WHEELS GO ROUND"

CHAPTER III

In which we find a goodly inheritance.

THE STORY OF THE INSTINCTS 33

CHAPTER IV

In which we learn more about ourselves.

THE STORY OF THE INSTINCTS (Continued) 51

CHAPTER V

In which we look below the surface and discover a veritable
wonderland.

THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 77

CHAPTER VI

In which we learn why it pays to be cheerful.

BODY AND MIND 118

CHAPTER VII

In which we go to the root of the matter.

THE REAL TROUBLE 141

PART III: THE MASTERY OF "NERVES"

CHAPTER VIII

In which we pick up the clue.

THE WAY OUT 183

CHAPTER IX

In which we discover new stores of energy and relearn the
truth about fatigue.

THAT TIRED FEELING 219

CHAPTER X

In which the ban is lifted.

DIETARY TABOOS 250

CHAPTER XI

In which we learn an old trick.

THE BUGABOO OF CONSTIPATION 278

CHAPTER XII

In which handicaps are dropped.

A WOMAN'S ILLS 300

CHAPTER XIII

In which we lose our dread of night.

THAT INTERESTING INSOMNIA 322

CHAPTER XIV

In which we raise our thresholds.

FEELING OUR FEELINGS 333