'Hypocrisy' includes a variety of phenomena; it is a form of ego adaptation, a partial defiance of the adult, a preservation of one's own ego. Fear of real feeling may lead one to simulate emotions; one can rationalize such 'hypocritical' feelings, and can cope with them more easily. Detachment serves similar purposes in adaptation: less intense feelings can be handled better, frustration is lessened, conflicts over instincts are milder. But such adaptation extorts a heavy price in repression of ideas and feelings, loss of spontaneity, capacity for adjustment. Some degree of depersonalization is closely linked with this process. In some situations self-control can be achieved only through such depersonalization; but again, the price paid can be most damaging to the personality. 'The idealization of self-control, objectivity, and detachment springs from fear of emotions' and, in the author's opinion, may do 'at least as much harm as unbridled emotion'.