About Ourselves Psychology for Normal People

9781417938827

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1927. From the foreword: Is the reader hopelessly perfect? If so, let him close this book. It is not for him. Is he so mentally ill that he requires the careful attention of a psychiatrist? If so, again, let him close the book. This book is for the rest of us, the in-betweens; the so-called normals. It is written out of the conviction that we normal persons need to know a good deal more about ourselves than we ordinarily do. If we are obviously not normal, we get well cared for. Our friends send us to physicians of one kind or another-physicians of the body and physicians of the mind; and if we are fairly lucky, we get patched up and have a blissful time thereafter boring our friends to death with tales of what the doctors did to us. The difficulty with most of us is that we suffer from the familiarity which breeds a dulled awareness. It is refreshing at times to break in upon this dullness with pictures of ourselves taken from a different angle and with a wider perspective. Our personal traits are then revealed as determining factors in our lives which are carrying us towards a triumph or defeat. It is precisely such a revelatory awakening which the work of the more recent psychology has brought about and which these pages will, in a measure, carry over to the reader. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.