Abstract
MENTAL hygiene has become so much a matter of everyday politics that well-balanced books on the subject are welcome. This is a sane and readable account of personality difficulties and how to deal with them. How we wish the dictators and other psychopaths in the world could apply mental hygiene principles to themselves and their henchmen. The author very wisely says: “A large proportion of our social and political distempers can, doubtless, be traced to the disfigured, discordant, dissatisfied personalities that inhabit the earth.… Mental health and mental hygiene in international as in personal relations means facing facts and issues candidly and dispassionately, without bias, duplicity, hypocritical diplomacy and subservience to insensate emotional urges.”
Personality Maladjustments and Mental Hygiene:
a Textbook for Psychologists, Educators, Counselors and Mental-Hygiene Workers. By Dr. J. E. Wallace Wallin. (McGraw-Hill Publications in Psychology.) Pp. xii + 511. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1935.) 18s.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 138, 636 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138636c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138636c0