d the matter as being so serious that it brings directly in
question my right to teach, but I do not feel at all sure I could
find other work that I could do if I give up my present position.
The very thought that on a particular occasion it would be
extremely awkward to blush makes it almost impossible for me to
avoid it."

But we have rather now to consider the therapeutic side, and we may
begin again with a routine method of a simple hypnotic treatment.

The patient is a young university professor. His intellectual work
is perfect in all directions. There are no nervous symptoms, though
there are some slight disturbances of digestion. He suffers as soon
as he comes into a crowd of people and as soon as he is on any high
place, where he has to look down; the worst when both conditions
are combined, as for instance, at a concert or a theatre in a
balcony seat. But every meeting of many persons, even at church,
produces all the symptoms of nervous excitement. He was easily
brought into hypnotic state by verbal suggestions. When he was in
hypnosis, I reenforced the conditions for an opposite attitude. I
told him that as soon as he was in a crowd of persons he would feel
especially comfortable, would enjoy himself, would fully enter into
the spirit of the occasion and feel especially secure in their
presence. Whenever he should be on a high place, he would enjoy the
safety of the ground on which he was standing or the seat on which
he was sitting. I assured him that he would neglect entirely
whatever he saw and would rely completely on his safe feeling
resulting from his tactual impressions. After having hypnotized him
three times the disturbance disappeared completely, and even an
evening at the theatre in an exposed box on the balcony was enjoyed
without any discomfort. After about a year, at a period of
fatiguing work, some traces of the anxiety appeared again. This
time two hypnotic sittings were sufficient to remove the
disturbance of the equilibrium, which as far as I know has not come
back. The same hypnotic treatments were used in a secondary way to
remove the digestive trouble.

I again quote the case of a teacher, a profession in which the
psychasthenics are unusually frequent. It is a case of a young woman
from the Middle West.

The young lady wrote