The Nervous Housewife

'The Nervous Housewife' is a case-study on housewives' psyche as analyzed by Abraham Myerson, a Lithuanian neurologist, psychiatrist, clinician, pathologist, and researcher. In his own words: "What are the causes of the change? Did the housewife of a past generation go through the same stage? Ask any man you meet and he will tell you his mother is or was more enduring than his wife. "She bore three times as many children; she did all her own housework; she baked more, cooked more, sewed more; she got up at five o'clock in the morning and went to bed at ten at night; she never went out, never had a vacation, did not know the meaning of manicure, pedicure, coiffure. She was contented, never extravagant, and rarely sick.""