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WORKS BY BORIS SIDIS
Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure.
The Foundations of Normal and AbnormalPsychology.
Symptomatology, Psychognosis, and Diagnosisof Psychopathic Diseases.
The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases.
Human Progress.
The Psychology of Suggestion.
Multiple Personality.
Psychopathological Researches.
An Experimental Study of Sleep.
Philistine and Genius.
The Psychology of Suggestion.
A Study of Galvanometric Deflections.
The Nature and Causation of the Galvanic Phenomenon.
NERVOUS ILLS
THEIR CAUSE AND CURE
BY
BORIS SIDIS, M.A., Ph.D., M.D.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR, THE SIDIS PSYCHO-
THERAPEUTIC INSTITUTE, PORTS-
MOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Author of “The Foundations of Normal and AbnormalPsychology,” “The Causation and Treatment of PsychopathicDiseases,” “Symptomatology, Psychognosisand Diagnosis of Psychopathic Diseases,” etc., etc.
BOSTON
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
Copyright, 1922, by Richard G. Badger
All Rights Reserved
Made in the United States of America
Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company, New York, U. S. A.
“The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.”
Montaigne.
INTRODUCTION
In this volume I give a brief, popular account ofsome of my work in Psychopathology, or AbnormalPsychology for the last quarter of a century. I donot refer to my work on psychopathic reflexes, moment-consciousness,moment-thresholds, multiple personalityand other subjects. The reader will findall these subjects in my other works. In this volumeI make an attempt to simplify matters. I lay stresson the main factors and principles of that part ofAbnormal Psychology that deals with the subject ofnervous ills.
It is to be regretted that some physicians, andamong them many neurologists of excellent standing,hesitate to accept the work accomplished in the domainof Psychopathology, confusing the latter withwhat parades at present under the name of psychoanalysis.Thus a well known physician writes to me:
“I think that the majority of men in general work(medical) do not separate Psychopathology fromPsychoanalysis. Freud’s theories and the wholetrend of psychoana