The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-02
INSANITY SAID TO LURK IN
 QUEER HABITS AND HOBBIES

she will, and meanwhile lives in fas- cinated suspense. Of course, she fails to comprehend the psychologi- cal Arrangement of her mind that IS going on, but it would not be diffi- cult to trace the growth of her tim idity into an hallucination, altloJ gh she might be otherwise normal.
 "On preparing to retire." continued Dr. Goldenweiser, certain persons indulge in a kind of ceremonial. They hang one garment on this chair, an other on a second chair, and so on until their sense of regularity has been satisfied. Some persons will go to the extent of arranging the chars in exact positions, leaving one win dow ajar just so many inches, ana would not sgo to bed unless a par ticular light was turned on. Within themselves these habits mean noth- ing and a routine of this sort Is practced by host of people without any psychic significance, so far as their mental health is concerned.
 Interfere With z wi1l,so fl Q Freedom.
 But the moment that these hab- it's begin to exert compelling in- fluence on the mind they have a ten dency to control it, interfering With the normal freedom of the will. Then the person concerned develops neurotic tendencies. It is an easy progress from these habits to con- dition where one cannot sleep unless every form of the habit has been ob- served in the customary way. This is what we call a bed ritual in psy- chology, an insidious process which saps the mind of it's decision, the power to combat disturbing ele- ments."
 Dr. Goldenweiser also has made some interesting observations ot what he calls the housewifes com plex, and which he said was a com mon phenomena in the psychological laboratory.
 There are numbers of women who find play for their emotions by the medium of a dustrag and broom, was his comment. "They will go about the house for hours at a time sweeping out every corner again ana again, dusting the same chair with the same rag, although they nad dusted it but five minutes before This futile activity indicates an emo tional source, perhaps emotional star- vation. It prompts them to a cease less stirring without any special purpose, just to keep busy, as the saying goes."
 The Mun With A Crouch.
 The man with a grouch is another of the human species that has come in for share of pr. Goldenweisers attention.
 Surely we all are entitled to have a erouch now and then" he said. but the man with habitual grouch shows neurotic state. He goes to work in the morning with chip on his shoulder and is ready to take of- fense at the slightest opportunity even to imag zine that discourtesy or an affront has been shown him when none was intended. Often he is noisy In his monomania, challenging eV- erybody and clustering before the timid or surly and rude to those who must suffer from his presence This is a pretty definite form of psy- chic disturbance, and it is falrly safe rule that the man with perma- nent crouch really is fit subject for psychic treatment His condi- tion of the mind yields under the proper methods, but it is. one that never should be permitted to develop because it warps a mans outlook He becomes a boort without realizing that the ill-treatment from which he supposes himself to be suffering eA- ists only within his own mind."
 When this sort of aggravated grouch is permitted to run it's course unchecked it degenerates into fixed hatred Dr.. Goldenweiser said. "A man so affected is inclined to store un thoughts of vengeance against other persons within his cricle, particularly against one or two, and in extreme cases this h,tred leads to serious deeds, all for the reason that what began as a simple grouch ended as a violent aberration., aat s
 The pernicious thread of neurosis runs through many mans mind without his suspectirg it. One of these
 is the man who~ fancies himself like some great character in history. This thought may begin to germinate in the most innocent way such as q compliment that Henry Johnson bookkeeper, resembled Napoleon lock of hair falling across the brow