How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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of friends who needed psychological readjustment but
were either ignorant of their own difficulties or fearful of
the implications of psychiatric treatment.
An additional stimulus to prepare this book came from
colleagues who desired a trenchant outline of the scope of
individual psychology together with a guide of “ what to
do ” and “ how to treat ” the problems that arose in the
everyday practice of medicine. Students who attended
the author’s courses and lectures contributed an
additional impetus by requesting the author to put the
material of these lectures—which were of necessity the
merest outlines of the subject—into book form. The
actual writing of the book, finally, was undertaken because
of the author’s growing realization that a practical
treatise on psychotherapy could be of value to the large
number of essentially normal men and women who suffer
some unpleasant neurotic episode from time to time, or
realize that their efficiency is impaired by some vaguely
recognized neurotic conduct. These men and women are
intelligent enough to apply the general principles of
rational psychotherapy to their own cases as soon as they
are acquainted with the true meaning of the facts. In
many instances these temporary or potential neurotics
can obviate and correct their own mistakes after
appropriate orientation in the meaning of their own
difficulties and after the application of the practical hints
which the author has incorporated into the text for the
use of just such readers.
The purpose of this book, which might be sub-titled :
“ A catalogue of instigations for those who would walk
with courage,” may be stated thus : to sketch, in the
barest outlines, certain basic principles of the good life ;
to stimulate the reader to further self-training and self¬
clarification ; and finally, to suggest certain practical
measures for the extension of the reader’s vital horizons.
The book contains no magical formula for the attainment
of happiness, nor does it purport to present a panacea for
all conceivable human disappointments and chagrins. It
offers no guarantee, nor does it advance any claim to
completeness. It is written for men and women who are