QUEER MENTAL OBSESSIONS
References to menial obsessions over trivial things were made by Dr. May Smith, of the London School 01 Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, at the conference in Loudon of the Association for Education in Industry (according to the “Daily Mail’). “Each of us,” said Dr. Smith, “has been afflicted at some time with doubts after iwe have done a trivial action, such as turning off a light or locking a door, and have been compelled! to go back aiid verify it.” Dr. Cove-Smitli . described the' “numerical obsession.’’ . • ? \ I ’
“I knew a man,” he said, “who was suffering from a numerical obsession. When he came out of the Tube at' Oxford Circus ' be found ’himself, confronted with'-the words ‘PeterRobinson,’ and Peter Robinson has i 13. letters in it. 'This worried him so much that lie ’found -he could not -getout of the Tube • at Oxford ' nud so he decided to go on to -Bond sti'eet, the ' next _ station, audl walkback.” (Laughter:)
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11832, 13 January 1933, Page 6
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162QUEER MENTAL OBSESSIONS Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11832, 13 January 1933, Page 6
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