[54] We have in mind throughout the discussion, not the richer members of the community, for whom a relatively expensive holiday or period spent in the nursing home is easily possible, but the great majority of the public, to whom even the ordinary doctor’s bill may be a source of financial embarrassment for months or years.
[55] R. G. Rows, Journal of Mental Science, January, 1912.
[56] pp. 77 and 78.
[57] Analytic Psychology, London, 1916, p. 318.
[58] “Everybody agrees,” say Déjerine and Gauckler (op. cit., p. 214f), “that neurasthenia is a neurosis, i.e., a nervous disease without any known lesions.... Neurasthenia is due wholly to psychological factors which are essentially, if not exclusively determined by emotion.” They then proceed to compare the “materialistic” theories of neurasthenia, showing that they are all still merely speculative.
[59] Cf. pp. 19 et seq.
[60] Cf. Déjerine and Gauckler, op. cit., p. 214f.
[61] As Professor Kraepelin says, “Nervenkranker sind Geisteskranker” (“Those ‘suffering from nerves’ are sick in spirit.”).
[62] The reader should consult Mr. W. McDougall’s excellent treatment of this subject in his Introduction to Social Psychology—especially pp. 45-89.
[63] The remarks of Mr. George Bernard Shaw on Max Nordau’s “Degeneration” (The Sanity of Art, especially p. 88) might be consulted in this connection.