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The author offers this book to the public in the hope that it may enable the reader to attain serenity, defined as a state of profound completeness, utter security and emotional satisfaction.
As subject matter he discusses interpersonal relations, social adjustment, marriage, parents and children and education—as well as fears, phobias and neuroses. The presentation of the latter themes will impress the reader who is at all familiar with psychoanalytic fundamentals only by its superficiality and oversimplification.
The chief merit of the book lies in the author's discussion of sociological problems and in this field he shows a good sense of values. Written for the laymen, this work offers nothing new to the specialist in psychotherapy. Notwithstanding its shortcomings, however, it may be classed as one of the better books among the great number which deluge the layman on the subject of personality development.