ividual Delinquent_, Healy.
_Rational Sex Ethics_, Robie.
_Social Psychology_, McDougall.
_The Play of Man_, Groos.

"That's too much for me," said Duncan. "I couldn't afford a quarter of
these books. What books would you recommend if you had to choose half a
dozen for a hard-up dominie?"

I thought for a little, and then I replied: "Bernard Hart's _The
Psychology of Insanity_, two bob; Frink's _Morbid Fears and Compulsions_,
a first-rate book on analysis, a guinea; _The Crowd in Peace and War_, by
Sir Martin Conway, eight and six; Healy's _Mental Conflicts and
Misconduct_, ten and six; and Wilfred Lay's _The Child's Unconscious
Mind_, ten and six."

"But," cried Duncan, "I don't want to set up an asylum! What's the good
of books on insanity and morbid fears to a teacher?"

I explained that the titles of Hart's and Frink's books were misleading,
although the difference between the mind of the lunatic and the mind of
the average man is merely one of degree. Bernard Hart shows that the
lunatic has the same faults as we have, only more so. Frink's book is
badly named; it is an excellent work on mind mechanisms. Any teacher who
reads these six books with understanding will never again use a strap on
a pupil. If I were Education Minister, I should present every school in
Britain with a copy of each of the six.

Macdonald asked if I had any books on hypnotism and suggestion.

"No," I said, "but I have read them through a library. I don't believe
in either because they do not touch root causes. We are all suffering
from bottled up infantile emotion, and analysis goes to the root of the
matter; it makes what is unconscious conscious, and enables the patient
to re-educate himself, to use the old repressed emotion up in his daily
life. Analysis means release. Suggestion does not touch the root
repressed emotion, and I fancy that after suggestion the symptom merely
changes. A man has a phobia of cats. By suggestion I can dispel his
fear of cats, but the fear is transferred to something else, and he then
has an exaggerated fear of catching tuberculosis. Unless the ancient
cause becomes conscious it is not released.

"We see suggestion working in our schools daily. By suggestion parents
and teachers force the child to inhibit his gross sexual wishes, and in a
short time the child accepts the ideals of his masters. At first he
inhibits a desire because father thinks it naughty; later he inhibits it
beca