ABSTRACT

The aim of this treatise is to give the public a much needed understanding of those factors in everyday living which on the one hand tend toward nervous weakness, and on the other make for personal power. From the author’s viewpoint, everybody at times suffers from symptoms which are popularly termed "nervous," for nervousness is a matter of degree rather than kind. Whether "nerves" take the form of unreasonable impulsiveness or of serious obsessions occasioning body pain, the fundamental cause and radical cure of both are essentially the same.

part I|99 pages

Part Facts

chapter I|10 pages

"Nerves" and the Premises

chapter II|19 pages

The Nervous Machine

chapter III|16 pages

Instincts, Emotions, and the Intellect

chapter IV|13 pages

The Moral Self

chapter V|12 pages

Environment and Adaptation

chapter VI|9 pages

The Criterion of Good and Evil

chapter VII|10 pages

Discrimination and Balance

chapter VIII|10 pages

Wisdom and Objective

part II|62 pages

Facts Ignored

chapter IX|11 pages

Impulse and Reaction

chapter X|14 pages

Unhealthy Mental Habits

chapter XI|12 pages

Suggestion and Suggestibility

chapter XII|11 pages

Suppression and Dissociation

chapter XIII|14 pages

The Major Nervous Disabilities

part III|131 pages

Facts Applied

chapter XIV|15 pages

The Object in View

chapter XV|15 pages

The Master Sentiment for Truth

chapter XVI|21 pages

The Control of Every-Day Activities

chapter XVII|25 pages

Self-Control in Ordinary Living

chapter XVIII|22 pages

The Control of Parental Love and of Anger

chapter XIX|17 pages

The Control of Fear

chapter XX|16 pages

Elation and Personal Power