| Summary: | "In this book Dr. Alexandra Adler has followed the principles laid down by her father in the light of her own clinical experience. Again and again she emphasizes the manner in which the early formative years of childhood set the pattern of later life. The treatment of neuroses in childhood is well described. On general principles, it is better to be a lighthouse than to be a lifeboat, and educators and parents may read and reread this portion of the book with profit. Dr. Alexandra Adler's statements, founded on wide experience, are rich in meaning and expressed in terms that are comprehensible to the layman. There are no figures, statistics, and norms, only case histories and concise formulations derived from long contact with human nature. One chapter is devoted to the much-neglected subject of the psychology of criminals, who may also be regarded as mentally sick people, in conflict with reality"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
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