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This little volume by the Director of the World Federation for Mental Health is a presentation of general mental hygiene principles designed for the lay reader. Some of the chapter headings are: The Physical Machine; Mind and Body; Psychological Mechanisms: Mental Breakdown, its Cause and its Cure; Sex Education; The Art of Adjustment. The general orientation is dynamic—the presentation sound and highly readable. The book is a useful addition
to the growing number of dependable psychiatric books for the nonmedical reader.