Understanding yourself : the mental hygiene of personality / by Ernest R. Groves.

  • Ernest R. Groves
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Understanding yourself : the mental hygiene of personality / by Ernest R. Groves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The book ranges over a large territory, and I am in¬ debted to a host of thinkers and writers who have busied themselves with various phases of human nature. In no field of investigation does science meet greater difficulties than in its study of human personality, and nowhere are its conquests of greater value to the welfare of us all. The effort has been made to present material gathered from many sources, in direct language free from the technicalities that necessarily characterize the writings of the specialist. In the appendix the reader will find a dis¬ cussion of the literature from which I have drawn infor¬ mation and inspiration. In the pages that follow the business of living is not presented from a superior elevation, for they are written by one who shares the common problems of the men and women who try in the ordinary routine of their lives to practice the principles of mental hygiene to increase their own satisfactions and to add to the happiness of others. The greater part of Chapter XIV was published in The Forum and Century and is reprinted here through the generous permission of the editor of that magazine. Ernest R. Groves Chapel Hill, N. C. [3]