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In the preface the author tells the reader that “the purpose of this book is to guide you in your aim to live at the top level of your capacities and your opportunities”. The design of the five chapters and their titles indicate the general trend: Accepting Our Endowments; Employing Our Resources; Regulating Our Beliefs; Handling Our Liabilities; Patterning Our Expressions.
Here are the same lines and patterns of popularized “psychology” exemplified in previous books published by Jastrow in this particular field. In it one will find no more awareness or presentation of the import of psychoanalysis than in the others. The keynote of the author's approach on this point is the type of compromise affirmative in that which pertains to superficial generalizations such as no “psychology”, regardless of how facile or thinly spread, can at this date deny; and negative regarding the analytical processes and methods that have laid the basic ground—of which the generalizations are remote abstractions.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the few pages of lukewarm lip service to Freudian achievements—from the bottom of page 196 to the middle of page 202-have been included to accommodate those potential readers who, Jastrow notwithstanding, have discovered that there is a content to Freudian ideas having a deeper relation to their own problems than detracting critics of Freud have allowed. A comparison of this passage with that immediately following, in which the author states that he does not believe psychoanalysis has any place as a general measure of