INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5318, 27 August 1928, Page 4

INFERIORITY COMPLEX.

AN ARRESTED MEWTAL CONDITION

“It has been generally found,” says Dr. Fenlnelly, at- Wellington, “that people who suffer from linsomnia are those wtih an inferiority complex or" an arrested! mental condition, possibly brought about as the outcome of Repressive treatment i'n some form or other in early childhood, by ill-advised people w'ho wished -to bring tihein children up according to some ideal of their own imagining, which could not possibly be understood by the child. A child is Pke a flower and it ennnot be tinkered with, without arnes-ting its secret mental growth. Lea.ve the Child If you have it normal do not seek to- warp it into some ideal or Conception of your own!

“The percentage of arrested mental development cases is so startling that the British Government has been called upon to interfere. This- has come to light in tests for admission to the British Army, Which have established the fa,ct that 37 per cent, of the men so examinee! isihow an arrested mental condition due to, their environment in childhqod, ailld one of the effects in after, life takes the form of what we call insomnia. The child must understand! as a child—lit asks for understanding as much as for food, air, and protection. Let the child have his own way—that iis the lesson we are teaching the world today, one which the world must recognise. It is not so much what you teach children, as it is how you do it.”

Subsequently the lecturer made the statement that 99 per cent, of the people of England were suffering from “a gigantic inferiority complex,” which meant t'ha.t only one in every hundred could bei classified in the supeniqrity complex classes.