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The Mind at Mischief
Tricks and Deceptions of the Subconscious and
How to Cope with Them
By William S. Sadler, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Formerly Professor at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago; Senior Attending Surgeon to Columbus Hospital; Director of the Chicago Institute of Research and Diagnosis; Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; Fellow of the American Medical Association; Member of the Chicago Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical Society, the American Public Health Association, etc.
Introductions by
Robert H. Gault, PhD.,
Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
and Meyer Solomon, M.D.,
Associate in Neurology, Northwestern University
First published - September, 1929
Contents
1 Preliminaries
2 What is the Subconscious?
3 The Psychology of Complex Formation
4 The Psychology of Self-Deception
5 Control of the Subconscious
6 Human Emotions, Instincts, and Sentiments
7 Emotional Repression and Rationalization
8 Emotional Conflicts
9 Unsatisfied Wishes and Sublimation
10 The Fear Complexes
11 Worries, Dreads, Obsessions, and Anxieties
12 Fastidious Suffering - Psychic Pain
13 The Inferiority Complex
14 The Conscience Complex
15 The Feeling of Inadequacy
16 Neurasthenia and Psychasthenia
17 The Reality Feeling - Transference and Projection
18 Dissociation and Double Personality
19 Automatic Writing
20 Telepathy - Mind Reading
21 Hypnotism
22 The Origin and Nature of Dreams
23 Hysteria
24 Juggling with Consciousness
25 Simple Paranoia
26 Spiritualistic Mediums
27 The Spirit of the Subconscious
28 Complex-Hunting
Detailed Contents
1 Preliminaries
1.1 Other Books By Dr. Sadler
1.2 The Author's Preface
1.3 The Psychologist's Introduction
1.4 The Neurologist's Introduction
2 What is the Subconscious?
2.1 Our Different Selves
2.2 Definitions
2.3 The Dual Nature of Mind
2.4 Technique of Subconscious Processes
2.5 An Illustrative Case
2.6 The Repository of Experience
2.7 The Unconscious Wish
3 The Psychology of Complex Formation
3.1 The Stream of Consciousness
3.2 The Theory of Complex Formation
3.3 Association of Ideas
3.4 Detached Complexes
3.5 Psychic Insurrection
3.6 Dissociation of Ideas
3.7 Repressed Ideas
4 The Psychology of Self-Deception
4.1 Facts and Fantasy
4.2 Fantasy and Imagination
4.3 Feelings and Emotions
4.4 Self-Deception
4.5 Shifting the Gears
4.6 Tapping the Subconscious
5 Control of the Subconscious
5.1 Narcissism
5.2 Infantile Egoism
5.3 Early Training of the Subconscious
5.4 Identification
5.5 Other Forms of Identification
5.6 Trying to Dodge the Reality of Living
6 Human Emotions, Instincts, and Sentiments
6.1 Primary Instincts and Emotions
6.1.1 Fear
6.1.2 Disgust
6.1.3 Wonder
6.1.4 Elation
6.1.5 Subjection
6.1.6 Tenderness
6.1.7 Sex-hunger
6.1.8 Hunger
6.1.9 Security
6.1.10 Hoarding
6.1.11 Pride of creation
6.1.12 Anger
6.2 Secondary or Composite Emotions
6.2.1 Sympathy
6.2.2 Admiration
6.2.3 Imitation
6.2.4 Rivalry
6.2.5 Vanity
6.2.6 Pride
6.2.7 Gratitude
6.2.8 Awe
6.2.9 Reverence
6.2.10 Envy
6.2.11 Remorse
6.2.12 Scorn
6.2.13 Contempt
6.2.14 Aversion
6.2.15 Courage
6.3 Human Sentiments
6.3.1 Pity
6.3.2 Shame
6.3.3 Jealousy
6.3.4 Revenge
6.3.5 Reproach
6.3.6 Humility
6.3.7 Play
6.3.8 Humor
6.3.9 Love
6.3.10 Hate
6.4 Human Convictions
6.4.1 Friendship
6.4.2 Altruism
6.4.3 Patriotism
6.4.4 Religion
6.4.5 Occupational loyalty
6.4.6 Family loyalty
6.4.7 Social conventions
7 Emotional Repression and Rationalization
7.1 Defense Reactions
7.2 The Technique of Repression
7.3 Rationalization
7.4 The Technique of Rationalization
7.5 Illustrations of Emotional Suppression
7.6 Spiritual Anemia
8 Emotional Conflicts
8.1 Classification of Instincts and Emotions
8.2 The Life Urge - The Self-Preservation Instincts
8.2.1 Health faddists
8.3 The Sex Urge - The Reproductive Instincts
8.3.1 The modern sex problem
8.4 Common Sex Conflicts
8.5 The Worship Urge - The Religious Emotions
8.6 The Religious Complex
8.7 The Power Urge - The Ego Group of Instincts
8.7.1 What price wealth
8.8 The Social Urge - The Herd Group of Instincts
9 Unsatisfied Wishes and Sublimation
9.1 Repressed Wishes
9.2 Psychoanalysis
9.3 The Freudian Libido
9.4 The Freudian Ego
9.5 The Psychoneuroses
9.6 Desire for the Extraordinary
9.7 The Death Wish
9.8 The Practice of Sublimation
10 The Fear Complexes
10.1 Causes of Fear
10.2 What Is the Fear Complex?
10.3 The Physical Aspects of Fear
10.4 The Biology of Fear
10.5 The Fear-Anger Mechanism
10.6 The Sublimation of Anger and Hatred
10.7 "Stage Fright"
10.8 The Stage-Fright Habit
10.9 Chronic "Dying Spells"
11 Worries, Dreads, Obsessions, and Anxieties
11.1 Some Common Worries
11.2 Every-Day Phobias
11.3 Residual Fears
11.4 Definite Dreads
11.5 Motor Obsessions
11.6 The Management of the Fear Complex
11.7 The Anxiety States
11.8 The Anxiety Neuroses
12 Fastidious Suffering - Psychic Pain
12.1 Psychic Sensation
12.2 Habit Pains
12.3 Action and Reaction
12.4 Forgetting Pain
12.5 Fastidious Suffering
12.6 Neurotic Pains
12.7 Psychasthenic Suffering
12.8 The Hypochondriacs Pains
12.9 Treatment of Fastidious Pain
13 The Inferiority Complex
13.1 The Stimulus of Success
13.2 A Story of Defeat and Triumph
13.3 Are You Unfair to Yourself?
13.4 Misplacement of the Conscience
13.5 In The Business World
13.6 How One Case Started
13.7 Chronic Indecision
13.8 Influence of Physical Handicaps
13.9 The Matter of Physical Appearance
13.10 False Piety
13.11 Temperamental Peculiarities
13.12 The Sissified Boy
13.13 Learn To Be a Good Loser
14 The Conscience Complex
14.1 What Is Conscience?
14.2 Health Complexes
14.3 The Physical Culture Complex
14.4 The Professional Complex
14.5 The Mother Complex
14.6 The Fifth Commandment Complex
14.7 The Family Complex
14.8 The Missionary Complex
14.9 Conscience and Love Affairs
15 The Feeling of Inadequacy
15.1 The Inadequacy Complex
15.2 Origin of the Inadequacy Complex
15.3 Dangerous Defense Reactions
15.4 Fleeing From Reality
15.5 Illustrations of the Inadequacy Complex
15.6 Dodging the Realities of Life
15.7 What Can We Do About It?
16 Neurasthenia and Psychasthenia
16.1 The Fatigue Complex
16.2 The Making of a Fatigue Complex
16.3 Habitual Tension and Fatigue
16.4 Psychasthenia - True Brain Fag
16.5 The Emotional Threshold
16.6 Active and Latent Forms
16.7 Eminent Psychasthenes
16.8 Psychasthenic Fatigue
16.9 Psychasthenic Symptoms
16.10 Illustrations of Psychasthenia
16.11 Classification of the Psychoneuroses
17 The Reality Feeling - Transference and Projection
17.1 "The Reality Feeling"
17.2 Transference of the "Reality Feeling"
17.3 The Medium's Mind
17.4 "Transference" in Mediums
17.5 Buried Memories
17.6 The Technique of "Projection"
17.7 Origin and Nature of Projection
17.8 Hallucinations
17.9 Emotional Fixation
18 Dissociation and Double Personality
18.1 Hysterical Fugues
18.2 Dissociation as Related to Spiritism
18.3 Commonplace Dual Personality
18.4 Dual Personality in Mediums
18.5 Somnambulism
18.6 An Interesting Case
18.7 Treatment of Multiple Personality
19 Automatic Writing
19.1 Technique of Automatism
19.2 Classes of Automatic Writers
19.3 A Strange Case of Automatic Talking
19.4 Is Memory Infallible?
19.5 Illustrations of Automatism
19.6 Forgotten Experiences
20 Telepathy - Mind Reading
20.1 The Telepathy Hypothesis
20.2 Identical Twins
20.3 The Philosophy of Telepathy
20.4 Diverse Theories
20.5 Mrs. Piper and Thought Transference
20.6 Telepathy Frauds
20.7 The Anna Eva Fay Type
20.8 The Problem Involved in Telepathy
21 Hypnotism
21.1 Hypnotism
21.2 Psychic Analysis
21.3 Psychic Analysis of Mediums
21.4 Repression and Suppression
21.5 The Case of Elsa Barker
21.6 When Is Hypnotism Valuable?
22 The Origin and Nature of Dreams
22.1 Abnormalities of Sleep
22.2 The Content of Dreams
22.3 Interpretation of Dreams
22.4 The Freudian Theory of Dreams
22.5 Day-Dreams
22.6 Explanations of Unique Dreams
22.7 An Interesting Experience
22.8 Psychology of Dreams
23 Hysteria
23.1 The Causes of Hysteria
23.2 Forms of Hysteria
23.3 Imagination as an Actor
23.4 The Simulations of Hysteria
23.5 Shell-Shock
23.6 The Wanderings of a Hysteric
23.7 Hysterical Confusion
23.8 Ideals and Reality
23.9 Fighting It Out to a Finish
23.10 Hysteric Blindness and Deafness
23.11 Psychics and Hysteria
23.12 Hysteria and Mediumship
23.13 Treatment of Hysteria
23.14 Looking for Sympathy
23.15 Emotional Immunity
24 Juggling with Consciousness
24.1 Forgotten Experiences
24.2 Tapping the Subconscious
24.3 Trances and Catalepsy
24.4 Spiritualistic Tendencies
24.5 Crystal-Gazing and Shell-Hearing
24.6 Memory Abnormalities
25 Simple Paranoia
25.1 The Paranoid Tendency
25.2 Persistent Delusions
25.3 Illusions and Hallucinations
25.4 Illustrations of Paranoia
26 Spiritualistic Mediums
26.1 Looking Beyond the Grave
26.2 Communicating With the Dead
26.3 The Reaction to Materialism
26.4 Spiritualistic Philosophy
26.5 Instinctive Longings
26.6 Is Spiritism Biologic?
26.7 The Desire of the Ages
26.8 Spiritualistic Fashions
27 The Spirit of the Subconscious
27.1 The Fear of Death
27.2 The Challenge of Science
27.3 The Spiritualistic Type
27.4 The Physical Basis of Mind-Neurograms
27.5 Functional Disturbances
27.6 Subconscious Neurograms
28 Complex-Hunting
28.1 Complex Indicators
28.2 Emotional Analysis
28.3 Self-Analysis
28.4 The Craving for Distinction
28.5 Auto-suggestion
28.6 Reeducation