Towards mental health : the schizophrenic problem / by Charles Macfie Campbell.

  • Charles Macfie Campbell
Date:
1933
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Credit: Towards mental health : the schizophrenic problem / by Charles Macfie Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IV Summary IN CONCLUDING these lectures it may be well to review briefly the topics that have been dis¬ cussed. The health of the individual consists not only in the integrity of those structures and func¬ tions that subserve the maintenance and the physical well-being of the organism, but in the harmonious adjustment of the conflicting pleasure-seeking tend¬ encies of the individual, in the attainment of an independent personality, in the balance between the claims of the individual and those of the social organism of which he is an integral part, in the adaptation of the finite individual with his limita¬ tions and his trials to the cosmos in whose web he finds himself an infinitesimal node. A review of the life histories of some of the casual¬ ties suggests that fuller knowledge and the social utilization of this knowledge may reduce the likeli¬ hood of shipwreck. The establishment of harmony between the conflicting tendencies in human nature may be favored by an improved attitude of the
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