The author is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah. The author writes in the popular vein with the theory of making the material interesting to the reader and make it apply to himself or herself. An attempt is made to have the contents clear, simple, practical and valid. The volume is divided into 13 chapters with titles such as the following: The Common Denominator, Everybody is Neurotic, The Basis of Character Structure, Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother, Causes of Anxiety, and Psychiatry for the Layman.