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THE author gives us what he considers is a useful dissertation on psychology in general, suitable for boys and girls who have just left, or are about to leave, school. We think a better title might have been chosen; comparatively few children of school-leaving age show any great interest in ‘the will to live’, but might be very interested in modern points of view in psychology simply told. The book is very well laid out and, generally speaking, presents a very readable account of psychology. We should prefer to see the word ‘complex’ used in its narrower meaning; in ninety per cent of cases when the word complex is used in modern psychology it refers to what the author would prefer to term a ‘buried complex’. We think the author might have given a rather fuller account of Adlerian theories, for they appeal considerably more to the lay mind as a distinctly healthier view than either those of Freud or even Jung.
The Will to Live: an Outline of Evolutionary Psychology.
By J. H. Badley. Pp. 267. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1931.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Psychology. Nature 128, 954 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128954c0
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