This little book sets forth the experiences of a clinical psychologist covering an experience with some 445 patients. The general results of the clinic were apparently very encouraging. This can be easily understood even though the book in many spots shows crudities of thinking and deals with concepts long since scrapped. For instance, in order’” to break up, to destroy, and banish persistent unhealthy images and ideas” he speaks glibly of “the formulating of exercises which will train the will” (p. 52). Other of his ideas are rather naive. For example if he wishes to get rid of a habit of depression and sadness, he insists that the person take smiling exercises at stated intervals (p. 48), and confesses that a “phonograph constantly repeating certain appropriate sentences, could be made very useful in a suggestive way” (p. 17).

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