o show what a complete transformation is
made in the mental state by a few weeks' work along the right lines.

Case No. 87.522--Here was a case of a type that is very, very common.
It was that of a girl, 17 years of age, from a good family,
well-educated and having all the marks of careful training in a home of
refinement. The most marked characteristic of her case was the tendency
to recur. In other words, she was an Intermittent Stammerer, who had
believed (as had her parents) that the tendency to get better was an
indication that she would soon outgrow the trouble. "If Marie still
stammers by the time she is 18--" this had come to be almost a
household word, for if she stammered at that time, it was the intention
of her parents (so they said) to have the girl placed under treatment.
As was to be expected, she continued to stammer and continued to get
steadily worse, although the tendency to be better and worse by turns
was maintained throughout the years. The periods of improvement were
eagerly seized by her parents, year after year, as indications of
out-growing, while the periods of relapse were seldom spoken of and
usually ignored. It was another case of the old saying that: "We like
to think that the thing will happen which we want to happen," and since
they wanted the daughter to outgrow her trouble, they insisted in
believing, despite their own unexpressed fears, that the daughter would
"eventually get over it!"

She did not get over it, however, and the critical age of 16 brought on
a condition so severe that her parents became alarmed about her and
sought advice as to what should be done.

An examination of her case brought out the fact that she had probably
inherited a predisposition to stammer, but that the immediate cause of
the trouble had been fright, caused by a nurse who had tried to
discipline the girl when small, by telling her that the "bogey-man"
would get her if she didn't do certain things as told. This
disciplining by means of fear is never a safe procedure and in this
case had been carried to extremes on many occasions, finally resulting
in the child becoming a stammerer.

She had a case of Genuine Stammering in its second stage and, according
to her own statement at the time the examination was made, had become
much worse in the last two years. At age 15 it seems that everyone felt
secure in the belief that her trouble would pass away, but at age 17,
the condition became critical, the diso