Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Lovely example of this book. 1952 first edition. Name sticker in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The contrast between life inside a hospital or prison today and life in the world is not so great as might be supposed perhaps the greatest difference being that inside the institutions it is more regular and more disciplined and that among all the emotion- ally and mentally disturbed people there are a few sane or very nearly sane trying to help the sufferers. Outside there are just as many insane psychotic and neurotic people just as many borderline cases just as many people who are their own tor- ment; but there is no regularity no order or discipline that they accept and in most cases no one to help them. There is one form of psychological suffering for which there is as yet no medical term and no admission to hospital or clinic usually but not always the sufferers even keep out of prison. I have named this ego-neurosis. Ego-neurosis is a disease of the soul a spiritual rather than a psychological ailment. It consists in a thrusting forward of the self; it may take the form of self-analysis self-defence self-obsession self-aggrandizement. (LL)