"Nerves" as a Handicap to Efficiency *Based on an address given at the Annual Conference of the Association of Mental Health Workers, Harrogate, March, 1936.

No one doubts that serious intellectual or physical defect handicaps the sufferer in his task of earning a living, just as no one doubts that high intellectual and physical gifts are an advantage. There are, however, examples of people who are lacking neither an adequate intellectual nor physical equipment, but who are nevertheless handicapped. The handicap is due to some inadequacy of functioning on the emotional plane. If we knew that A and B were equally intelligent?and it is possible now to test for intelligence with reasonable accuracy?and that they were equally equipped physically and practically for a specific occupation, we could