Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.