Minor mental maladjustments in normal people : based on original autobiographies of personality maladjustments /

"Examination of the case histories in this volume discloses the fact that persons at large in society, functioning as normal individuals and filling important positions in life, are subject to an amazing variety of transient or lasting mental disturbances or idiosyncrasies, and that mental mala...

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Main Author: Wallin, J. E. Wallace (John Edward Wallace), 1876-1969
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1939.
Series:Duke University publications.
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Summary:"Examination of the case histories in this volume discloses the fact that persons at large in society, functioning as normal individuals and filling important positions in life, are subject to an amazing variety of transient or lasting mental disturbances or idiosyncrasies, and that mental maladjustments may be produced by all sorts of processes of conditioning, even the most trivial ones. They offer convincing proof that the most fruitful field of application of mental hygiene principles is preventive and constructive mental health work with the vast army of potentially normal children. As one of the contributors to these case histories remarks"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 298 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical reference and index.