How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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PAGE CHAPTER EIGHT Of Goals The Three Ring Circus The Importance of Useful Work—The Social and Sexual Tasks—The Battlefront of Life—The Concept of “ Distance ”—About “ Nervous Breakdowns ”—The— Holiday Neurosis—About Idlers—Of Sexual Virtuosity— Emergency Exits of the Soul—Normal Sex Relationships— The Inter-relation of Human Problems—Catalogue of Side¬ shows—Why “ Normality ” Pays. 196 CHAPTER NINE Of False Goals The Side-shows How the Family Inhibits Mental Maturity—The Necessity of Educating Young Children Outside the Family—The Normal Uses of Individualism—The Evasion of Work—The Sexual Side-shows—The Bogey of Masturbation—The Cure of Masturbation—Homosexuality—Why Homosexuality Can be Cured—Sexual Athletes and the “ Double Standard ”■— Narcotics—Psychological Aspects of Alcoholism—The Cost of Prostitution—-Minor Conversions of Sex—The Problem of Flight from Reality. 223 CHAPTER TEN Patterns of Failure About Neuroses The Neurotic Decalogue—Types of Neuroses—Fallacies of Freudian Psychoanalysis—Adler and the Hormic Point of yjew—Fundamental Dynamics of Neurotic Behaviour— Techniques of Evasion—The Flight from Reality—“ Split Personality ” : a Neurotic Fiction—Suicide—The High Cost of Neurosis—Psychological “ Rackets ” and the “ Cure ” of Neuroses—How a Neurosis Is Cured—Who Shall Treat the Neurotic ? 256