This little book is intended to acquaint the general nurse with some of the mental mechanisms that determine her own behavior as well as that of those with whom she comes in contact in the discharge of her professional duties. With exceptions humiliatingly few in number the medical profession has been slow in appreciating the nature, extent or importance of the mental forces operative in physical illness. If the expositions set forth in this book receive the recognition they deserve from the readers to whom it is addressed the practitioner will do well to take inventory of his ideas concerning mental dynamics lest the nurse come to have a more appreciative understanding of those forces which unrevealed by microscope or roentgenogram subtly operate for health or disease. It is a