How long does one have to persist in these ana­lytic efforts before any pronounced results are to be hoped for? And how long do they have to be kept up?

It will depend wholly on what has been accom­plished. In order to produce results something has to be analytically attained; some element of a dream, an emotional experience, or a cover-memory must be made to yield up its secret to the consciousness. And although the benefit to the personality from an ana­lyzing of some dream or memory element cannot be very pronounced, yet it certainly means that some­thing has been accomplished—even if it is not at once consciously apparent.

Whenever an element in a dream or cover-memory has yielded to analysis, a definite step towards adjust­ing some subconscious disharmony has taken place. Every such single experience will mean something, even if it is some time before the cumulative results are recognizable.

As there are no two people alike, no two people will fall into the same groove in applying the analytic method. Each and every one will gradually gravitate into his own particular psychological habits in an in­voluntary manner.

Don't expect to undo the results of twenty, thirty, forty, or even fifty or sixty years of undesirable in­fluences in an equal number of minutes. If anyone is looking for any such royal road as that, then he had better devote his efforts to some original research work on his own account; for up to the present time no such route has been discovered.

No such route will ever be found; for it cannot exist. The human race has been able to evolve only by the one royal route of struggle and effort.

Your psychoanalysis may end on this very page— or this book may influence you to go on further in helping yourself. It may even convince you that you should seek help elsewhere.

But, one thing is certain—by the very act of read­ing through this book you have at least started on the way to real mental health.

The End