Kathleen Norris Says: How Often Do Psyclio-Analysts Help? Bell Syndicate. WNU Features. "Many a young tcife has been led to wonder if the baring of her soul to tome sympathetic adviser might not brighten her life." L By KATHLEEN NORRIS THE FASHION today is to be psycho-analyzed. This alarming word means that whoever is restless, rest-less, unsatisfied, ill-adjusted to his or her life, goes to a specialist. spe-cialist. The specialist digs deep into the unhappy person's per-son's consciousness, asking all sorts of intimate and embarrassing em-barrassing questions, trying to find out what influences in the past have created her timidity, jealousy, fear, hate, or whatever else is wrong with her. Sometimes the psycho-analyst is a person qualified by nature, science and training to help, and does help. More often he or she knows nothing, and only vaguely repeats phrases that mean nothing. Not so much from any real intention of cheating, but rather in pleased surprise that they have stumbled upon anything o easy and so lucrative. The anxious family of the sufferer takes this very seriously. They are cheered when the analyst says hopefully: hope-fully: "We are coming on. We are learning to live with ourselves honestly. hon-estly. I think we are bringing the real cause to the light. We want to help ourselves now, and that is the great thing." Enjoys 'Baring Her Soul. The theater, beginning with "Lady In the Dark," has helped the spread of psycho-analysis immensely. immense-ly. Many movies have followed suit. Many m young wife who might, a generation ago, have accepted her lot as housekeeper and mother With philosophy and common sense, has been led to wonder if the baring of her soul to some sympathetic adviser ad-viser might not brighten her life. She enjoys going back we all do to the disappointments of childhood, the embarrassments and humiliations humilia-tions of school days, the first awakening awak-ening of young love. She enjoys talking about herself; who doesn't? Fortune tellers command attention because their fascinating topic is always oneself. Some years ago the Coue doctrine took this country by storm, and persons per-sons whose lives were running smoothly went about beaming because be-cause "every day in every way" everything was "getting better and better." When the first blast of real trouble struck them they fell silent, and as the second and third blows fell and light or heavy no one escapes es-capes them long! the Coue formula formu-la fell away into nothingness. Undoubtedly Coue did some good. Undoubtedly psycho-analysis helps some cases. But nine times out of ten the patient could help herself faster and cheaper than the professional profes-sional can. So in case you live far away from the nearest psycho-analyst, here are a few hints that may help you out of your own predicament at no expense ex-pense at all. Money Troubles, Jealousy. The first cause of marital discontent, discon-tent, with all its ramifying lines of quarrels, hurt feelings, failures, is money. So If your husband considers consid-ers you extravagant, or you consider con-sider him stingy, settle this question ques-tion yourselves. You don't need a third party to tell you that hunger for pretty things all during your girlhood had made you wasteful, now that you can have them, or to tell him that his father's debts, his mother's financial worries, his own fear of hard times, have made him somewhat penurious. Work out your money problem on a sensible "Scolding, wasteful wives. ..." t ANALYZE YOURSELF In some cases of mental ills, the psycho-analyst can be of great assistance. It has become be-come the fashion, however, for discontented, unhappy people to turn to psycho-analysis as the great cure-all of the age. It is nothing of the sort, says Miss Norris. It has a limited lim-ited use. Patients must be cooperative. co-operative. The practitioner must be skilled and sympathetic. sympa-thetic. Improvement often takes a long time. Most people do not need the services of a psycho-analyst so much as they need common sense and a little soul-searching, continues Miss Norris. Generally the cause of the difficulty dif-ficulty is well knoivn. It may j be extravagance, or jealousy, or a desire for dominance. In any case, the psycho-analyst can do little more than point the trouble. He cannot make the necessary changes in the individuaVs character or circumstances. cir-cumstances. Often a husband and wife can solve their imaginary mental men-tal problems by a frank talk. Whether the difficulty arises over money, or relatives, or some personal fault, (he solution solu-tion can be found by bringing it out into the open. There is seldom any use going to a high - priced psycho analyst. Better solve your oivn problems, prob-lems, concludes Miss Norris. basis, and then both of you stick to your bargain, and with the money saved on the psycho-analyst go to dinner and the theater together. A secondary great cause of married mar-ried distress is jealousy. Don't give each other cause; that is the simple cure, and that is all the scientist can say. But if there is cause, a psycho-analyst can't cure it. If that grass-widow in your husband's office of-fice really has matrimonial designs on him, having the situation analyzed anal-yzed won't help. After the most skillful han'dling, the facts will remain re-main the same; he is making love to another woman. Jealousy was the basic trouble with a man I knew, according to the expensive psycho-analyst he consulted. consult-ed. The analyst told him that he had been jealous of his father and mother, his sisters and brothers, his teachers and associates. This did not, however, help him with his wife, who shortly afterward justified his Jealousy by going off with another man. Jealousy is a sin, and so are un-kindness, un-kindness, domestic injustices, extravagance, ex-travagance, waste, penuriousness, nagging, drink all the other ills to which marriage stands heir. Sin is cured by grace, not by analysis. Drinking and gambling husbands know what's wrong, without long luxurious talks about it. Scolding, wasteful wives are perfectly aware why there are always storms over the household bills. Mothers and fathers fa-thers who quarrel before the children, chil-dren, know why Joan is nervous and shy, and Tom completely unmanageable. un-manageable. It would save some of them a lot of money if they looked into their own hearts before laying them bare to a complete stranger. Braille Translator A woman who decided at the age of 60 that she wanted to transcribe books into Braille for the blind recently re-cently has completed her 337th volume. vol-ume. She is working under the direction di-rection of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind. The translator is Mrs. Ida Kling-enstein Kling-enstein of New York City. Her most ambitious undertaking was "Gone With the Wind," which stretched out Into 31 volumes of Braille. Mrs. Klingenstein, who is now 73, works on a volunteer basis.