New Britain herald., 1925-04-17

condition. It's condition that operates on the nervous organism. Even a seri- ous neurotic realizes his condition; a person in psychosis does not realize 1t at all.
 Today this man with the insecurity complex is absolutely normal and well.
 We had to go back and get all the causes. l got all the story of his life that l could, and then used the word- association tests where we give about five hundred words and study the re- action to those words.
 THE first cause was easy to under stand. This man was seeing things through the screen of misconceptions grown out of his early life, that made him feel that life was not safe. Now, the first thing that gives security to the individual is normal food given to the baby. The nursing process had been in- teffered with continually in his case. There had been disturbances in the family which had played upon his chance to be properly nourished and properly taken care of
 Fright is fully as dangerous as hunger at this age, and fright which this man received in early childhood started a background of belief that life wasn't going to be good to him. These circum- stances would have had less effect on the man if he had been less sensitive The higher the blood level the more force of refinement in the family back ground, the greater chance to be devastated. In his case there was a line family background which made him suiter intensely; whereas a man of 8 lower blood level would have been im- previous. Nature builds up in the lower levels sort of mental and moral ana. esthetic.
 Later on there came a period of com piete father domination. His father planned out what he was to do and what ne was to be. He had an absolute sched- ule to obey. He was sensitive, emo- 'iorai' responsive nature that could easily have gone in for some artistic .ype or work. He did not even know 'nlS himself because his life was SD @oSoIutely y regimed. In this boy the devastation was tremendous.
 ,I. ne became early in life a punctuality auuict' have had a good many of 'heSe; they are just as much held bv the disease of having to be on time all u,1 yne tune as a man who takes drugs. when this man came to me, if he was A minute late, he was pale.
 When we had uncovered +bis r.u,. native instincts, We had material i'm. i'eulstely to combat the shells of bah;t to develop his inner powers, and he began to see the queer motives of +bs kind Of life that he had lived As bo saw three or four real accomplishments or ms own, he began to get sense of cohnoence in himself and in Gfe Tn other words, he made attachment to Hfs and got his own roots in the qronnd where they belonged. He finally got 10 the point where no failure could shake nm and the insecurity complex gradually disappeared.
 There is no better method of getting to know oneself than through writ ing an autobiography. Test it out with the best conception of normalitv vou can get. No one is entirely normal Ask the question; "Where does my mind seem to depart from normality. and what may have made it depart from normality?"
 No matter what the problem may be. the individual should look at himself as the first equation and at environment as the second equation. Then he will see whether or not it is necessary for him to change environment so that tbs forces of his nature may come through
 We have got to realize that the sum of happiness is in realizing that BerRson is right when he says that "Joy I. the sign of true living!"
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