"PSYCHOLOGY WITHOUT SIGHS"
" Some writers on modern psychology have emphasised the fact that by the repression of instincts a man may become ill," writes Henry Houston Aitchison, M.A., M.R.P.S., in "Psychology Without Sighs." " The cave-man, if he is unduly repressed," adds Mr. Aitchison "may ereate trouble, and constantly be sbowing through the veneer of civilisation The opposite conception is also true. If a man represses his ideals, and assumes a veneer of blase unbelief he may precipitate a serious eonflict which will only be resolved by discovering s*wortby ideal, and giving himself to it . . . As Professor James— tbe greatest flgure in psychologieal medicine that America kas produced — says : 'The sovereign cure for worry is religious faith. The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ooean undisturbed, and to him who has a hold of vaster and more p4rmanent realities the hourly vicissitudes _o| his personal ' ITim thinga.' 2 ^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 4
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153"PSYCHOLOGY WITHOUT SIGHS" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 65, 9 December 1937, Page 4
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