Setup · Unconscious Mind

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay the Location Goal tiles in a row: the Cure five Clients tile in the middle and three random tiles on each side of it.
Lay the Location Goal tiles in a row: the Cure five Clients tile and the Haunted Location Goal tile side by side in the middle, then three random tiles on each side.
Block every Idea space in the leftmost and rightmost columns of the Meeting Table with Ideas of an unused color (8 spaces).
Take 12 random level I and 12 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Solo: the Id

Keep the turn summary card and the conversion reference card at hand, 4 Coffees → 1 Heart-Shaped Box side up (3 Coffees for a harder game).
Give the Id an unused color and set it up like a player, with these changes: its Office board goes right of its player board (no Insight dial or common Insights); cover its leftmost Inkpot space with the overlay token; its Coffee starts on “0”; put a Bright Idea on its middle and right locked Ideas.
You are the starting player (Freud side up). The Id is second: instead of the Coffee it gets 1 Bright Idea.
Fill the Id’s player board with its 9 Notebook tiles: one color per row, inactive side up, I–II–III from left to right. Put its Professor on Freud’s Location.
Lay out the Treatise tiles in rows and columns by points and color, and never rearrange them.
Put the Compass Arrow next to your board pointing left or right at random, and shuffle the 16 Meeting Table cards into a face-down deck with room for a discard pile.
The Id drafts first: the Compass Arrow picks its Client, it takes the face-up Manifest Dream with the most Therapy points (ties: Compass Arrow). Then you draft as usual.
Shuffle the 4 Routine Client overlay tiles into a column under the Id’s Routine Client; line the 4 Case-Study overlay tiles up under its Office Room card so each one’s tag scoring matches the tags beside it (the gray tag goes with the Reputation one).
Difficulty — Easy: flip the Id’s top-left tile active, Case-Study overlays on their lower numbers. Medium: flip its whole left column active and move that column’s player-color Insight to its Idea supply, lower numbers. Hard: as Medium with the higher numbers.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 3 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay the Location Goal tiles in a row: the Cure five Clients tile in the middle and three random tiles on each side of it.
Lay the Location Goal tiles in a row: the Cure five Clients tile and the Haunted Location Goal tile side by side in the middle, then three random tiles on each side.
Block every Idea space in the leftmost and rightmost columns of the Meeting Table with Ideas of an unused color (8 spaces).
Take 12 random level I and 12 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Solo: the Id

Keep the turn summary card and the conversion reference card at hand, 4 Coffees → 1 Heart-Shaped Box side up (3 Coffees for a harder game).
Give the Id an unused color and set it up like a player, with these changes: its Office board goes right of its player board (no Insight dial or common Insights); cover its leftmost Inkpot space with the overlay token; its Coffee starts on “0”; put a Bright Idea on its middle and right locked Ideas.
You are the starting player (Freud side up). The Id is second: instead of the Coffee it gets 1 Bright Idea.
Fill the Id’s player board with its 9 Notebook tiles: one color per row, inactive side up, I–II–III from left to right. Put its Professor on Freud’s Location.
Lay out the Treatise tiles in rows and columns by points and color, and never rearrange them.
Put the Compass Arrow next to your board pointing left or right at random, and shuffle the 16 Meeting Table cards into a face-down deck with room for a discard pile.
The Id drafts first: the Compass Arrow picks its Client, it takes the face-up Manifest Dream with the most Therapy points (ties: Compass Arrow). Then you draft as usual.
Shuffle the 4 Routine Client overlay tiles into a column under the Id’s Routine Client; line the 4 Case-Study overlay tiles up under its Office Room card so each one’s tag scoring matches the tags beside it (the gray tag goes with the Reputation one).
Difficulty — Easy: flip the Id’s top-left tile active, Case-Study overlays on their lower numbers. Medium: flip its whole left column active and move that column’s player-color Insight to its Idea supply, lower numbers. Hard: as Medium with the higher numbers.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 3 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order. [Nightmares] Put the Haunted Location Goal tile beside them.
Block every Idea space in the leftmost and rightmost columns of the Meeting Table with Ideas of an unused color (8 spaces).
Take 12 random level I and 12 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
The player who most recently made a Freudian slip starts (or choose any way): they take the starting player token, Freud side up. Play goes clockwise.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Starting extras: the second player gains 1 Coffee.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 3 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
In reverse turn order (counter-clockwise, starting right of the starting player) each player drafts: a Routine Client with its Grief Layer into the Primary Office Room (left), a Latent Dream from the deck face up above it, then a Manifest Dream from the display (refill it) or the deck, laid over the Latent Dream with its bottom icons showing.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order. [Nightmares] Put the Haunted Location Goal tile beside them.
Block every Idea space in the leftmost and rightmost columns of the Meeting Table with Ideas of an unused color (8 spaces).
Take 12 random level I and 12 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
The player who most recently made a Freudian slip starts (or choose any way): they take the starting player token, Freud side up. Play goes clockwise.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Starting extras: the second player gains 1 Coffee.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 3 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
In reverse turn order (counter-clockwise, starting right of the starting player) each player drafts: a Routine Client with its Grief Layer into the Primary Office Room (left), a Latent Dream from the deck face up above it, then a Manifest Dream from the display (refill it) or the deck, laid over the Latent Dream with its bottom icons showing.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order. [Nightmares] Put the Haunted Location Goal tile beside them.
Block the top and bottom Idea spaces of the leftmost and rightmost columns of the Meeting Table with Ideas of an unused color (4 spaces).
Take 15 random level I and 15 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
The player who most recently made a Freudian slip starts (or choose any way): they take the starting player token, Freud side up. Play goes clockwise.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Starting extras: the second player gains 1 Coffee, the third 1 Bright Idea.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 4 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
In reverse turn order (counter-clockwise, starting right of the starting player) each player drafts: a Routine Client with its Grief Layer into the Primary Office Room (left), a Latent Dream from the deck face up above it, then a Manifest Dream from the display (refill it) or the deck, laid over the Latent Dream with its bottom icons showing.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order. [Nightmares] Put the Haunted Location Goal tile beside them.
Block the top and bottom Idea spaces of the leftmost and rightmost columns of the Meeting Table with Ideas of an unused color (4 spaces).
Take 15 random level I and 15 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
The player who most recently made a Freudian slip starts (or choose any way): they take the starting player token, Freud side up. Play goes clockwise.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Starting extras: the second player gains 1 Coffee, the third 1 Bright Idea.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 4 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
In reverse turn order (counter-clockwise, starting right of the starting player) each player drafts: a Routine Client with its Grief Layer into the Primary Office Room (left), a Latent Dream from the deck face up above it, then a Manifest Dream from the display (refill it) or the deck, laid over the Latent Dream with its bottom icons showing.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order. [Nightmares] Put the Haunted Location Goal tile beside them.
Leave every Idea space of the Meeting Table open: nothing is blocked at 4 players.
Take 18 random level I and 18 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
The player who most recently made a Freudian slip starts (or choose any way): they take the starting player token, Freud side up. Play goes clockwise.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Starting extras: the second player gains 1 Coffee, the third 1 Bright Idea, the fourth 1 Coffee and 1 Bright Idea.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 5 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
In reverse turn order (counter-clockwise, starting right of the starting player) each player drafts: a Routine Client with its Grief Layer into the Primary Office Room (left), a Latent Dream from the deck face up above it, then a Manifest Dream from the display (refill it) or the deck, laid over the Latent Dream with its bottom icons showing.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.

The common area

Put the City Map and the Meeting Table in the middle of the table.
Sort the 24 District tokens by color and stack each color on its space in the middle of the City Map, with the token showing a Reputation point on top, point side up.
Put Freud’s Reputation marker on space “1” of the Reputation track.
[Nightmares] Put the Madness Check token on space “6” of the Reputation track.
Pick one of the six Location Goal tiles that show a colored Location tag at random and put the Freud figure on the matching Location of the City Map.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order.
Lay all seven Location Goal tiles face up in a row between the City Map and the Meeting Table, in any order. [Nightmares] Put the Haunted Location Goal tile beside them.
Leave every Idea space of the Meeting Table open: nothing is blocked at 4 players.
Take 18 random level I and 18 random level II Notebook tiles; box the rest.
Shuffle each level separately into a stack, main action side up. Put the level I stack on the Meeting Table’s upper-left tile space and the level II stack below it.
For each row: flip the top tile to its banner side and put it in the rightmost space, then flip the next one into the center space.
Build the Client and Dream displays above the City Map (next steps).
Shuffle the Routine Client deck (blue 1900–1903 tab), put it face down and lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Routine Client deck in two, shuffle the 6 Uncanny Routine Clients into one half and put that half on top. Lay 2 Routine Clients face up beside the deck.
Shuffle the Case-Study Client deck (red 1904–1907 tab), put it face down to the right and lay 2 Case-Study Clients face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Do the same with the Case-Study Clients and the 4 Uncanny Case-Study Clients, then lay 2 face up.
Shuffle the Grief Layers into the dispenser box, put it left of the Routine deck and lay a Grief Layer on each of the four face-up Clients. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers (cap icon) apart.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Grief Layers in two, shuffle the 12 Metamorphosis Grief Layers into one half, put it on top, load the dispenser box and lay a Grief Layer on each face-up Client. Keep the 5 starting Grief Layers apart.
Shuffle the Latent Dreams and put the deck face down above the Client display.
Shuffle the Manifest Dreams, put the deck to the right of the Latent deck and lay 4 face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Shuffle the Manifest Dreams and lay only 3 face up. Shuffle the Nightmare Dreams into a deck to their right with 1 face up beside it.
Shuffle the Research deck and put it face down. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
[Nightmares] Split the shuffled Research deck in two, shuffle the 12 Wild Research cards into one half and put it on top. Lay 2 Research cards face up beside it.
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available).
Sort the 9 Treatise tiles into three stacks by size (overlap them so every Volume color and tag shows — all are available). [Nightmares] Put the Treatise of the Dead beside them.
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited).
Make a general supply of Bright Idea tokens (unlimited). [Nightmares] Add the 6 Dark Insights and the Madness tokens, and put the Madness reference card where everyone sees it, standard side up.

Each player

Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus an Insight dial, a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Choose a color: take its player board, Office board, Professor, Inkpot, scoring marker, Reputation marker, 2 Therapy markers, 6 Ideas and 6 Insights, plus a Cracked Insight dial [Nightmares], a Heart-Shaped Box marker, a Coffee marker and 7 common Insights. Fit the dial into the edge of the player board.
Inkpot on the top Inkpot space.
Heart-Shaped Box marker on “0” of its track.
Coffee marker on “4” of the Coffee track.
3 Ideas on the spaces above the three Notebook columns (locked for now).
3 Ideas in the Idea supply: these are the ones you start with.
Your 6 player-color Insights on their spaces: one right of each Notebook row, one below each column.
The 7 common Insights in the center reserve of your dial.
Scoring marker on “0/100” of the Victory Point track around the City Map, “100+” side down.
The player who most recently made a Freudian slip starts (or choose any way): they take the starting player token, Freud side up. Play goes clockwise.
Reputation markers on “0” of the Reputation track, stacked in reverse turn order so the starting player’s is on top.
Starting extras: the second player gains 1 Coffee, the third 1 Bright Idea, the fourth 1 Coffee and 1 Bright Idea.
Deal each player a random Office Room card and put it in the Secondary Office Room (right space under the Office board). It blocks that room until your first Client reaches Catharsis.

Clients and starting tiles

Lay out 5 Routine Clients face up and put a starting Grief Layer on each. Box the unused starting Grief Layers.
In reverse turn order (counter-clockwise, starting right of the starting player) each player drafts: a Routine Client with its Grief Layer into the Primary Office Room (left), a Latent Dream from the deck face up above it, then a Manifest Dream from the display (refill it) or the deck, laid over the Latent Dream with its bottom icons showing.
Put a Therapy marker on the Client’s Therapy track at the sum of the Therapy points on the Client and its Grief Layer; score any Victory Points printed on that space. Put your other Therapy marker on “0” of the right-hand track.
Box the starting Grief Layer of the Client nobody took and put that Client face down under the Routine deck.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Clockwise from the starting player, each player takes the three starting Notebook tiles with the glyph of their Office Room card plus one random Mad starting tile [Nightmares] and keeps one. Put your Professor on the Location shown in its banner and move common Insights from your reserve to the four dial areas shown.
Flip the kept tile to its main side and put it in any leftmost Notebook space of your player board (beside its matching symbol is a good start). Flip your Office Room card to its cap side.