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The publisher's description of this book contains the following summary of its contents 'In Our Inner Conflicts the author has developed a theory of neurosis whose dynamic centre is a basic conflict between the attitudes of "moving toward", "moving against" and "moving away from" people.' A Preface and Introduction give a brief account of the growth of the author's views out of her personal experience in clinical work and of their crystallization in earlier lectures and books. Part I, 'Neurotic Conflicts and Attempts at Solution', includes eight chapters; Part II, 'Consequences of Unresolved Conflicts', four chapters; there is a Conclusion, 'Resolution of Neurotic Conflicts', and an Index.
The three attitudes 'compliance', 'aggression' and 'detachment' are valid behaviouristic generalizations, though over-simplified, which have a certain descriptive and practical value in personology, inasmuch as the prevailing attitude may be an index of the balance of drives and the distribution of positive and negative relationships in the person concerned. But to accept the theory of neurosis presented by the author would be to discard the