Freud thinks perverted sex ideas are thus repressed, and cause hysteria by coming into conflict with the normal sex life. If these old sores can be laid bare by psycho-analysis, and the mental abscess drained by confession and contrition, cure follows. The biologists consider hysteria as an adult childishness, a primitive mode of dodging difficulties. Victims cannot live up to the complicated emotional standard of modern life, and so act on a standard which to us seems natural only in children and uncivilized races. Savill gives the following differences between neurasthenia and hysteria: NEURASTHENIA HYSTERIA Sex Both sexes equally. 97 per cent females. Age Any age. First attack before page of 25. Mental Intellectual weakness; Deficient will power, peculiarities bad memory Want of control and attention. over emotions. Causes Overwork; dyspepsia; Emotional upset or accident; shock. nervous shock. Course Fairly even. Paroxysms. Vary from hour to hour. Mental Mental exhaustion; Emotional; wayward; Symptoms unable to study; no self-analysis, restless; sad; living by irritable; not rule or reading equal to medical books; amusement. May Fond of gaiety; be suicidal. sad and joyous by turns. Never suicidal. General Occasional giddiness; Flushing; convulsions Symptoms fainting rare; and fainting convulsions; common; no headache; backache; symptoms between sleeplessness; no attacks; local loss of feeling. anaesthesia or hyperaesthesia. Termination Lasts weeks or Lasts lifetime in months. spasms. CURABLE. TEMPORARILY CURABLE. Hysteria is a disease of youth, usually ceasing at the climacteric. Social, financial and domestic worries are exciting causes, a happy marriage often curing, and an unhappy one greatly aggravating the complaint. It is most common among the races we usually deem "excitable", the Slavs, Latin races and Jews, and is often associated with anaemia and pelvic disorders. Symptoms. Changeability of mood is striking. "All is caprice. They love without measure those they will soon hate without reason."