How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

Paranoia, 192, 273 as false compensation, 100 Parents, commonest mistakes, 65-8 importance of emotional attitudes, 63-5 {see also Children and Teachers) Paroxysmal tachycardia, 276 Patriarchy, as a cause of sexual competition, 308 change from matriarchy to, 311 family a hangover, 225 prostitution the accompaniment, 246 transition eras, 59 wreckage caused by the persistence of, 318-19 Paul, Saint, view of women, 309 Perfection, cult of, 348 is death, 350 Personality, as the tool to a goal, 109-12, 134-7 description of a typical evolution, 121-4 formation of, 21-2 good and bad, 116-8 methods of evaluating, 116 modern desire to understand, xi reaction to environment, 134-6 role of memory in indicating, 178-9 split, 268, 280-2 twelve laws of evolution, 16-23 unity of pattern, 18, 145, 164, 182 variation from the ideal norm, 119-29 Perversions, sexual, 276 exist only to destroy love, 234 fear of the opposite sex the keynote of, 245 homosexuality, 239-43 masturbation, 234-9 sexual athletics, 243-5 Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 86 Petrarch, Francesco, 53 Philosophy, altruistic, 194 fatalism, 193 goal a maximum of subjective security and a minimum of objective responsibility, 193 hedonism, 193 individualistic opportunism, 191 man’s attitude to the cosmos and his relation to the world in which he lives, 190 misanthropic, 191-2, 338 mysticism, 193 of drifters and turnips, 194 of passive resistance to life, 191 Philosophy—Continued of pessimism, 192 of pleasure as an end in life, 191 relation to the individual personality and goal, 190 wisdom of a stoic, 358 yogi, 266 Physical disabilities, as a source of fear and the inferiority complex, 47-54 importance of minor, 51 left-handedness, 49-51 of single organs or organ systems, 49 “ Plus gestures,” as evidenced in the superiority complex, 90-2 value of, 92-3 Poverty, as a cause of fear and inferiority complex, 61-2 Procrustes, Greek myth of, 171 Prohibition {see Alcoholism) Prostitution, 214, 218 product of patriarchal civilizations, 246 solution of problem, 246 {see also Sex) Psychasthenia, 268, 276 Psychiatry, danger of amateur deduc¬ tions, 114 emphasis on prophylaxis, 207 failure of analyses, 145 importance of memories in analysis, 176 modern use and abuse, xi qualifications for practice, 293 the “ objective-eye ” of, 14 Psychic inertia, law of, 13, 19 Psychologies of 1930, William Mac- Dougall, 271, n. Psychology of Sex : An Introduction, Erwin Wexberg, note, 233 Psychotherapy, 334 value of rational application, xiii Race prejudice, as a cause of fear and inferiority complex, 62 Ralph M., case of, 74 Reading, an index of character, 188 Reality, an approximation, 275 cost of fiight from, 252-5 Recreation, desirable but never life itself, 254 Reincarnation, theories of, 255 Religion, as a source of psychic mal¬ adjustment, 72-3 church the worst enemy of woman¬ kind, 309