Understanding Yourself. The Mental Hygiene of Personality. By Ernest R. Groves. Published by  Greenberg, New York, 1935. Pp.  268 + Appendix, Bibliography.

One of the outstanding effects of the mental hygiene movement has been the growth of a very large popular literature which deals from various points of view with the problems of psychology as they affect human adjustments, human behavior and human happiness. Whereas it is perfectly well known now, at least in informed quarters, that more serious problems of human behavior and adjustment are based upon factors which are unconscious and therefore not to be reached by such popular expositions, nevertheless, after all, the whole effect of psychotherapy might be condensed into a statement that it was based upon a method of self-enlightenment and understanding of one's self and one's motives, one's desires, and a recognition of their significance and purposes. While such a book as the present, therefore, can not be expected to solve the problems of the individual reader when those problems are based upon unconscious factors, it nevertheless is the sort of literature which helps to lay the foundation of a movement in the direction of mental health and mental disease prevention and to give the reader some understanding of the purposes of the various psychological functions, and,