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Dr. Carroll writes entertainingly about an important subject. He voices many platitudes and says many things very well. He lacks the depth of insight which a knowledge of psychoanalysis would give, but he is not antipathetic towards this method of approach. Altogether the book the reviewer thinks lays too much emphasis upon the physical and too little upon the mental—a criticism that would hardly be expected to apply to a psychiatrist. The doctor seems to think that exercise and proper food will work wonders in the process of rejuvenation. He fails to appreciate the new point of view, the changed emotional, orientation which accompanies the marked alterations in habits which he advises. His emphasis on food is altogether over-stressed. The glutton suffers as much, if not more, from the destructive results of continuous sensual self-indulgence as from disturbances of metabolism. The extreme to which the author goes in the matter of food is illustrated on page 33, where he revives the old fiction of the frequency of insanity among farmers' wives, but in place of attributing it to the cause usually brought forward—their loneliness and isolated lives—he attributes it to a diet too rich in proteins.
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