Glossary
Autonomic nervous system: The vegetative nervous system which controls vital functions,—as digestion, respiration, circulation.
Censor: A hypothetical faculty of the fore-conscious mind which resists the emergence into consciousness of questionable desires.
Common path: In physiology, the final route over which response is made to physical stimulation; similarly in psychology, the one outlet for the finally dominant impulse.
Compensation: Exaggerated manifestation of one character-trend as a defense against its opposite which is painfully repressed; relief in substitute symptom formation.
Complex: A group of ideas held together by emotion (usually referring to a group which is wholly or in part unconscious).
Compulsion: A persistent compelling impulse to perform some seemingly unreasonable (but really substitute or symbolic) act, or to hold some irrational fear or idea; an emotional force which has been separated from the original idea.
Conflict: (Special) Struggle between instincts (unconscious).
Conversion: (Special) The process by which a repressed mental complex expresses itself through a physical symptom.
Displacement: 1. Transposition of an emotion from its original idea to one more acceptable to the personality. 2. The shifting of emphasis, in dreams, from essential to less significant elements.
Dissociation: 1. The state of being shut out from taking active part (applied to a group of ideas), as in normal forgetfulness. 2. (Abnormal) An exaggerated degree of separation of groups of ideas, with loss to the personality of the forces or memories which these groups contain, as in double personality.
Fixation: Establishment in childhood of over-strong habit-reactions.
Free Association: A device for uncovering buried complexes by letting the mind wander without conscious direction.
Homo-sexual: The quality of being more attracted by an individual of the same sex (abnormal) than by one of the opposite sex (hetero-sexual, normal).
Hysteria: That form of functional nervous disorder which manifests itself in physical symptoms; an attempt to dramatize unconscious repressed desires.
Inhibition: Restraint (Special) limitation of function, physical or ideational, due to unconscious emotional attitudes.
Libido: Life-force, élan vital, or (restricted) the energy of the sex-instinct.
Neurosis: Used loosely for psycho-neurosis or nervous disorder.
Obsession: A compulsive idea inaccessible to reason.
Oedipus Complex: Over-strong bond between mother and son, or (more loosely) between father and daughter.
Over-determined: Used of an impulse made over-strong by lack of discharge, with accumulation of emotional tension from added factors.
Phobia: A persistent, unreasoning fear of some object or situation.
Psycho-neurosis: “A perversion of normal (psychic) reactions,” (Prince); a general term for functional dissociation of the personality, resulting in: psychasthenia—disturbed ideation; neurasthenia—disturbed emotions; hysteria—disturbed motor or sensory activity.
Psychotherapy: Treatment by psychic or mental measures.
Rationalization: The process of substituting a plausible, false explanation for a repressed, unconscious desire.
Repression: Expulsion from consciousness of a pain-provoking mental process.
Resistance: The force which impedes the return of a repressed complex to consciousness.
Subconscious: That part of the mind of which one is unaware; the storehouse of memories ancestral and personal.
Sublimation: The act of freeing sex-energy from definitely sexual aims; utilization of sex-energy for nonsexual ends.
Suggestion: The process by which any idea, true or false, takes hold of one; the idea may enter the mind consciously or unconsciously, through reason or through impulse.
Symbol: An object or an attitude which stands for an ides or a quality; (Special) that which stands for or represents some unconscious mental process.
Threshold (door-sill): A figure which represents the level of the barrier erected by the mind against the perception of an idea or sensation.
Transference: Unconscious identification of a present personal relationship with an earlier one, with conveyance of the earlier emotional attitudes (hostile or affectionate) to the present relationship.
Books on the General Laws of Body and Mind
Cannon, Walter B: Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage.
Crile, George W.: The Origin and Nature of the Emotions.
Coe, George Albert: The Psychology of Religion.
Hudson, Thomas Jay: The Law of Psychic Phenomena.
Janet, Pierre: The Major Symptoms of Hysteria; The Mental State of Hystericals.
James, William: Psychology; Talks to Teachers on Psychology; Varieties of Religious Experience.
Jastrow, Joseph: The Subconscious.
Kempf, Edward J.: The Tonus of Autonomic Segments in Psychopathology.
Long, Constance: Psychology of Fantasy.
McDougall, William: Social Psychology.
Mosher, Clelia Duel: Health and the Woman Movement.
Phillips, D.E.: Elementary Psychology.
Prince, Morton: The Unconscious; The Dissociation of a Personality; My Life as a Dissociated Personality.
Sherrington, Charles L.: The Integrative Action of the Nervous System.
Sidis, Boris: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology; Psychopathological Researches.
Tansley, A.G.: The New Psychology.
Thomson, William Hanna: Brain and Personality.
White, William A.: Principles of Mental Hygiene; The Mental Hygiene of Childhood.
Proceedings of the International Conference of Women Physicians. (National Board, Y.W.C.A., 600 Lexington Avenue, New York City.)
Books on Mental Hygiene
Brown, Charles R.: Faith and Health.
Bruce, H. Addington: Scientific Mental Healing.
Cabot, Richard: What Men Live By; Social Service and the Art of Healing.
DuBois, Paul: The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders.
Huckel, Oliver: Mental Medicine.
James, William: Vital Reserves.
Prince, Morton, and others: Psychotherapeutics.
Sadler, William S.: The Physiology of Faith and Fear.
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Books on Psycho-Analysis
Brill, A.A.: Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis.
Emerson, L.E.: Nervousness.
Freud, Sigmund: The Interpretation of Dreams; The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; Wit and the Unconscious; Selected Papers and Sexual Theory; A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis.
Frink, H.W.: Morbid Fears and Compulsions.
Hitschmann, E.: Freud’s Theories of the Neuroses.
Holt, E.B.: The Freudian Wish.
Jung, Carl G.: The Psychology of the Unconscious; Analytical Psychology.
Jones, Ernest: Psycho-analysis; Treatment of the Neuroses, Including Psychoneuroses—in Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases—White and Jelliffe.
Pfister, Oskar: The Psychoanalytic Method.
Putnam, James Jackson: Addresses on Psychoanalysis—Human Motives.
Tridon, André: Psychoanalysis.
White, William A.: The Mechanisms of Character Formation.
Journals Devoted to the Subject of Nervous Disorders
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, published in Boston.
Psychoanalytic Review, published in Washington, D.C.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, published in London.
Notes
70 For emphasis on religion as a means to sublimation, see Freud, Putnam, Pfister, James, and DuBois.