s of nature. The whole procedure took a few minutes. Yet
after some summer months she wrote me a letter which clearly
indicated this characteristic compromise between the habitual dread
and the reenforced counter idea. "I have the same sick dread at the
sight of thunder clouds that I have always had, but I seem to have
gotten somehow a most desperate determination to control my fear. I
have done this to the extent of keeping my eyes open and looking at
the storm. Is that hypnotism or pride?"

Another thunderstorm case may lead us to other methods of treatment.
Here again in the field of emotional response, we may consider the
methods of going back to primary experience, known or forgotten.

A young married woman of the West had suffered always from
hysterical attacks in response to any sharp sudden impressions,
especially sudden loud noises. The banging of a door, but worst of
all a thunderstorm, could produce hours of weeping and crying and
desperate mental condition with all expressions of excitement. Her
husband wanted me to hypnotize her but I preferred another way. I
tried to get her memory back to the earliest case of which she
could think of this hysterical response. As long as we were in
ordinary conversation, she could not trace it beyond about her
twelfth year. But when I brought her into a drowsy state, her
memory revived older experiences and finally settled at a school
experience in her seventh year of age. She then had an excitable
country school-teacher who relied on whipping the children. Once
her neighbor in the class did something forbidden. Her teacher
mistook her for the culprit and began to whip her most forcibly
before she could explain anything; and while the punishment was
going on and she began to bleed from a wound, she all the time felt
that she wanted to express her innocence and could not speak. After
that, evidently the first attack of hysteric character followed.
From that time on any sudden impression released the same group of
reactions. The suppressed emotion had evidently become a
psychophysical "complex." As soon as I had reached this starting
point of her pathological history, I asked her to bring back to
consciousness as many details as possible of that first incident.
She told me all the names and described the classroom and