The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-21
Psychoanalysis
 Proves Great
 Aid To Authors
Try It Yourself If You're Not Feeling Fit-May
 Get Good Results

Get Good Results
 New York.-Be psychoanalyZed if you're a struggling author. or one temporarily unable to finish. your work.
 According to Floyd Dell. we'll known novelist and editor, the search ing process of this analysis will re- lease your energy and will enable you instinctively to choose the right thing to do instead of wasting your time in several directions
 '@The most important thing psycho- anaylsis does" says MT. Dell, 'is to had just as much energy, but a great part of it was wasted trying to decide what to do and how to do it.''
 That psychoanalysis does meet the needs of many persons of literary ap- titudes is declared also by Mrs. Elida Evans, herself psychoanalyst and author.
 Mrs. Evans In1orses Idea.
 Many who have tried and failed, in any profession, after thorough analysis, which takes many months, meet with success" says Mrs. Evans. MT. Dell is right.
 'It is necessary to find out what holds such a person back from his desired expression or attainment One must find why this man or woman is not free to carry out his Or her plans.
 Dream analysis is the only way to find out what is holding back en- ergies in the unconscious"
 Unconscious instead of subcon- sciouS?" the speaker was asked.
 Decidedly, yes," replied MT. Evans. Mind is either conscious or not There is no 'subconscious.' During sleep we are unconscious.
 Environment has always been a great deterrent to development of diff ferent sorts. Tn cases of children, of which I have made a special study, this is very noticeable. Nervous, ir- rttable children are the victims of their surroundings, and instead of be- ing mistreated, according to the pop ular idea, are sometimes really loved to death. They are oppressed with kindness.' In such cases l recom- mend change.
 Idea Upsets Whole Life.
 'In childhood an idea may be im- planted that will deter that child when he is older In this way energy may be anchored to something in childhood long since forgotten by the conscious mind, but still able to hold it's victim back.
 For instance, know of a case of a grown man who in boyhood was called coward. He spent most of his life trying to prove he wasn't a coward, and as a consequence be- came a very quarrelsome, disagree able man. He seemed to be making a compensation to himself for the in suit of childhood.
 s'Mistaken ideas of duty retard the mental growth of many people. We all know of cases in which a man be- comes lawyer or a doctor because his mother wants him to. Thus we hnd many people trying professions for which they are unfitted and in which they can never be successful and happy.
 Tt is necessary to place interest and also affection. One must be fond of his work and must lift his desires into some such spiritual relations as marriage. The obsession of sex must be eliminated. It has caused enor- nous harm. Personally, I never mention it to a patient unless it both- CTS him or her in such a degree that 1t is referred to. But the most i'm portant thing is to sublimate emo tons and desires to a point where they Will De mediums of expression
 Case of Opal WhiteIy
 '1n regard to environment deter. ring and injuring child, what would you say Of the case of Opal Whitely the child author?" Mrs. Evans was asked.
 ''It is true that Opal, as she tells it was abused and neglected" said Mrs Evans, but we must remember tha her oppressors were not her req parents, and, therefore, what they said and did to her wouldn't have the same effect as if the corrections ant dlscouragements came from her owr Ilesh and blood. This is proved b, the fact that Opal wrote her story ir spite of everything. She had nusI enough to rise above her surround ings. She didn't suffer from beine loved to death.
 Psychoanalysis undoubtedly helm release energies and would aid a lit erary person suffering from some de terrent. But it is a suject deplorab1, misunderstood in this countrv fl which is has been brought from Eu rope"
 Floyd Dell in his praise of the sci ence IS most grateful and enthusiasti Tor the aid so received He says
 Deii Grateful for Aid
 In writing a novel, where. befor my analysis I had spent weeks trv ing 10 express an emotion which per sisted Tn eluding me. afterv7ard if wa not elusive. I had it within my era &, ana was able consequently to be ar tculate swiftly and cOnvincingIv
 It IS not to be supposed that M, Dell does not mean that any one viii the wish to be a writer may. thronei psychoanalysis, become one. Rathe he means that if ability is latent th examining process will bring it out
 But he says that he had himse1 psychoanalyzed and did not see hoI a man could write a novel before sue searching process or fail to after ward.
 Where men of talent have tried an ialied Tn professions, such as writ ing' TOT instance, it is reasonable f assume that there is some serious de