Nerves and Personal Power: Some Principles of Psychology as Applied to Conduct and Health

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.