ABSTRACT
Miss Field set out first to discover the nature and objects of this unhappiness and then its remedy. The technique of discovery is nothing very new and exciting now: free association writing, either off the reel or on a set subject, automatic drawings, catching the wandering thought of the moment and putting it into words, transcribing dreams and so on. But the results were as startling to the subject as they would be to any of us who choose to apply them. She imagined herself intelligent, rational, civilised, believing in intellectual progress, and the experiments revealed her to herself as timid, desperately anxious about the effect she was having on other people. It would be unfair to her book, which is as exciting as a detective story, to give away all the methods she tried, but they included both physical and mental exercises, the former paralleling in an interesting way the work of Mr Matthias Alexander.
