Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness

A collection of clinical sketches and illustrative lives examines nervousness and its consequences, contrasting adaptive nervous adjustment with neurotic overactivity. Chapters trace familial and developmental origins, the effects of diet, inactivity, and maladaptive emotion, and the impact of parental nervous damage on children. Practical remedies and therapies are explored through examples, including disciplined work, restorative play, dietary change, emotional retraining, deliberate hardening, and moral reorientation, culminating in accounts of recovery, disciplined freedom, and the cultivation of harmonious, resilient character.