How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

37° Mores, of sex relations, 31 Moses, 81 Mothers, The, Briffault, 58 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 5 3 Mussolini, Benito, 87 Mysticism, 193, 255 Nervous breakdown, 273 causes, 206 holiday neurosis a prototype, 208 Nervous indigestion, 276 Neurasthenia, 276 as false compensation, 100 sexual, 233 Neurosis, 256-96 absence of will, 268 an expression of inferiority com¬ plex, 44 an index of ignorance, 259 anxiety, 263, 268, 274, 338 as a defence measure, 85 a serious profession, 219 as false compensation, 99-100 as false pattern of life, 255 assault strategy, 272 as treated under demonic school of thought, 268 chief tragedy is contagiousness, 257 compulsion, 262, 268, 276 conflict, doubt, and indecision common, 144 conversion, 275-8, 289 cure of, 238, 287-8, 289-94 “ dangerous age,” 315 defined, 258 desire to be right, 349 detour technique, 275-9 double personality, 268 egoism, 259, 536-7 elaboration of make - believe superiority, 260 emotional current of fear pervading all neurotic conduct, 260-1 first evident in the sexual sphere, 214 five chief patterns, 272-84 futility, 265 hesitation, 273-5 high cost of, 284-7 holiday, 96, 205, 208 hormic drift, 262, 267, 270-2 hypersensitivity typical, 149 in home life, 67 intensified rather than lessened by marriage, 303 isolation and restriction of social sphere, 266 leitmotiv, 263 manic-depressive, 268 Neurosis—Continued must be interpreted in terms of conation, not causation, 267 necessity of guarding against evils of, 258 never works for ever, 286 of children in the family, 55-7 of pleasure and power, 254 only four possible ends served, 286-7 over-activity, 218 personal irresponsibility and passive resistance to the obligations of social life, 265 physical symptoms, 276-7 preoccupation with metaphysical problems, 278 primacy of individual ego and cult of uniqueness, 260, 334 primary goal, 260 proselytizing, 289-90 purposiveness, 262 retreat technique, 279-80 scapegoat established to bear blame, 264-5 self-destruction, 282-3 self-sabotage, 283 sexual competition leads to, 316 sexual perversions (see Perversion, sexual) “ split personality,” 280-2 substitution of “ I cannot ” for “ I will not ”, 263 ten cardinal characteristics, 258-67 training formulas, 174 typical character evolution, 125-9 “ unless ” behaviour, 149 vicious circle of the alcoholic, 252 weakness of spirit, 253 widespread existence, 120 Normality, the cure for masturbation, 238 an ideal limit of human behaviour, 294 security of, 220 value of, 220-2 Nunn, P. T., cited, 271, n. Nymphomania, 245 Objectivity, reaction to experience, 171 warped by family, 225 Old age, best insurance against mekneholia, 353 fear of reality, 354 happiness in, 351-6 Organ Inferiorities and Their Psychic Compensations, Alfred Adler, 49, 84