The fact that in the course of many neuroses there occur associated feelings of inferiority of a bodily nature, as well as the fact that there are neuroses originating in disturbances of bodily functioning—organ neuroses—compels us to scrutinize our hitherto accepted ideas of the nature and meaning, both of the somatic and of the psychic analysis of the latter. This need is based not merely on speculative grounds and on clinically or experimentally determined facts of recent medical research, but also in reference to the conceptions of modern physics and the views due to advances in zoology and biology. The accurate observations of these scientific disciplines and the inferences drawn from them no longer allow us to consider the somatic as merely secondarily informed by the psyche or as though inspired by a psychic act of projection. Just as the “wave “of the physicist is as much the carrier of the same primeval essence as is the “atom”, so also the world of organic forms has not been constructed secondarily by the conscious thinking spirit; on the contrary—apart from the aberrant (?) adaptations—we must recognize a prototypical pattern (?) also throughout the plant-animal kingdom. We have to recognize an aesthetic controlling principle that belongs to the somatic as such and is innate with it. The great creative artists have always sought for this essential pattern.

The problem of puberty can be regarded as the problem of functional psycho-somatic disharmony. The solution cannot lie exclusively in the field of mind or of body, because we are dealing not solely with psychic structures which are undergoing reshaping in their own right, but with the processes of maturation in the somatic field. The vector of normal growth lies somewhere within the parallelogram of these two forces. On this analogy, the presence of negative agencies must be stressed when we consider the repressive forces of the mind, and the return to primitive physiological responses as in schizophrenic reactions.

An open clinic makes provision for the psychological treatment of children and parents in the presence of other parents and individuals.

It is a matter of fact that love represents an indispensable function in the development of the personality. It is true for the peculiar relation arising out of human contact as well as for the critical processes which passion evokes in our psychic life. The importance of this function has increased concomitantly with our constantly growing consciousness. Analytical psychology has occupied itself at various times with the problem of the development of the personality through love—in a certain sense we might say that this is one of its basic ideas. It is therefore all the more remarkable that the literature offers nowhere a clear expression of this idea. In any event the decisive conclusions to be drawn from the assumption of this conception have never been formulated, much less accepted.

Stage fright is according to our present nomenclature and present-day knowledge, a neurosis belonging to the group of diseases caused by a profession. It may be looked upon as the most classical, sovereign human neurosis. The phenomena of. stage fright demonstrate very well a long series of psycho-vegetative, psycho-organic and psycho-somatic reciprocal effects and correlations. Besides vasomotor, vagotonic and sympatheticotonic relations, serological and humoral alterations, there is also a radical change of matter and various peculiarities of the glandular function associated with this apparently innocuous kind of neurosis which is often treated so lightly. Stage fright as well as other occupational neuroses, oratorical troubles, the “esprit d'escalier”, aphasic disturbances in speaking, stuttering, stammering, etc., which were considered hitherto as “nervous”, “fictitious” functional diseases deprived of an organic basis, cause in every-day life grievous sufferings, and form cultural problems which are too grave to be overlooked.

Next to its physiological function, every organ of our body has still another function, a psychological one. Having mentioned the psychological significance of the circulatory apparatus in general, and the psycho-physiological and psycho-pathological significance of the heart, the author summarizes the results of investigations into the relationship between psychical processes and the vascular system of the heart with normal people and with patients both waking and in hypnosis. The structure of a man's personality and his temperamental qualities play a part in his susceptibility to the contents of psychical experiences and in his psycho-physiological way of reacting.

A cerebral-pathological approach to the hysterical syndrome is presented in contrast to the biological and psychological approach. Hysterical motor and sensory disturbances are discussed, and the great group of the so-called organ hysterias are considered in the light of a typical case of hysterical visual disorders.

The methods of analytic psychotherapy, owing to its intuitive pre-occupation with allegory, have always shown a close analogy to religious experience. Psycho-therapeutic re-orientation leads via disturbing experiences, in the course of which hitherto undreamt-of unconscious psychic relationships become apparent, to the expansion of the conscious mind of the patient. There is a psychic catharsis. This process has clear analogies with the initiation experi ences of the ancient mysteries. In the course of psychotherapy things are evaluated from their beginnings in their relations to reality, and the effect of this is to re-establish normal contact with reality. One plunges into the psyche, however, only as far as is necessary to attain this end.

The usual cause of hæmatemesis is erosion of the gastric mucosa through some acute peptic ulcer, or as a complication in chronic peptic ulcer. Dated clinical and personal histories and an outline of the characteristics of the individual before the onset of symptoms were obtained from 16 female and 34 unselected male patients with severe hæmatemesis.

Two cases of severe organic disease were markedly benefited by psychotherapy.

The study of the relationship of the psychical and the endocrine mechanisms is made more difficult by the fact that the body does not react by separate systems, but as a coherent interlocking piece of machinery. Not only does the mind react on the glands and vice versa, but each gland reacts on the others to some extent. If follows therefore that one syndrome can be produced by two or more glands or by the mind and one gland. An example of the first is the adiposity, sexual dystrophy and hirsutism which make adrenal and pituitary syndromes so confusing, and of the second the difficulty in differentiating anxiety states from thyroid disease.