knowledge in these all-important processes. This man came to me for help some four or five years after beginning to adopt this way of standing during the interviews. He had then been suffering for a considerable time from loss of voice, general exhaustion, and nerve and digestive disorders. On one occasion he experienced a mental and physical crisis which his medical advisers called “a nervous breakdown.” Some of my impressions at the first and subsequent interviews were: (1) The undue and harmful lumbar curve of the spine with the corresponding intra-abdominal pressure. (2) The harmful and undue depression of the larynx and its accessories. (3) The exaggerated “gasping” in breathing in vocal and dramatic efforts. (4) The undue rigidity of the thorax and a minimum intra-thoracic capacity. (5) The lack of mental control in any attempts in psycho-physical re-education and co-ordination. (6) A pessimistic mental outlook with recurring fits of depression. (7) In the standing and walking positions the hips were held too far forward, the knee joints were pressed too far back and the angle of the torso from the hips was harmfully inclined backwards, with a general tendency, as we say, to narrow the back. CASE III A fixed idea regarding a definite mode of procedure adopted after experiencing a week’s illness in bed. This lady developed certain symptoms for the first time. She then decided upon a practical common-sense method of dealing with them which would undoubtedly have been the correct one in the long run. The day following her first efforts in this direction her feeling-tones registered that she was much worse, in fact that she was very ill indeed and that the latest symptoms were worse than those she had hoped to remove and ultimately prevent. She decided that her attempted remedy had actually been the cause of additional trouble without in the least relieving the original symptoms. The remedy referred to was one of activity, mental and physical. She therefore came to the conclusion that this new phase of her illness had been actually brought about by the attempt she had made to fight her symptoms by simple but active methods. This conclusion became with her an _idée fixe_.