Epigraph
One of the author’s favorite terms is “over-solicitous”. The patient literally “worrys themselves sick” over trivial symptoms and makes serious cases worse than necessary. Most of his use of psychotherapy consists of informing, diverting and cheering the patient so that worry and its consequences are not piled on top of real or imagined disease.
Many paragraphs have bold or italic titles. These are rendered by a extra blank line—a total of two blank lines.
The outline format of the book uses these conventions:
Major Topics, [Upper Case title]
Sections, [Upper Case, italic title]
Chapters,
Minor topics, denoted by bold face and an em-dash
Topic subheads denoted by italics and and em-dash
for example:
SPECIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
SECTION VII. _Cardiotherapy_
Chapter III. Cardiac Neuroses
Varieties.— [Bold]
Palpitation.— [italic]