| Show psychiatry can be of assistance in solution of social hygiene Pr problems oblenis by DR G LEONARD II harkington ARRINGTON independence mo alo 0 undesirable tendencies in young women often may be remedied by the discovery of sonic some obscure and apparently unimportant association of ideas formed in childhood many of these underlying causes appear ridiculous when revealed and provide the field where psychiatry can assist in the solution of social hygienic hygie ric problems As aa a crude es example timple if a small email girl stubs her toe on ler first day at sunday school she may unconsciously form an aversion to sunday school and retain it long 0 after the original cause ceases to be of consequence if a psychiatrist can discover the fact and point it out as the reason for her attitude the remedy may be easy psychiatry is ia based on the theory that will power is merely the cultivation ti of certain habits and the discouragement of others it is both preventive and curative the universal desire to feel of some consequence in the world is a powerful influence on oil character development one of the difficult problems of parents is to refrain from either over encouraging or suppressing the lie attitude in children cli ildren |
