The Foundations of Human Nature: The Study of the Person

"For many years, following rigorous scientific training, Dr. Dorsey has wrestled daily with the problems of the person. Every week he lives with youngsters who have not yet become psychiatric cases but who seem to be on their way, youngsters who are very like some in your classes and mine. Every week he counsels with college students not yet smashed from without or sickened from within but who are weakening just a bit under the dangers to which we all are prey. Every week in a great hospital he studies patients whose stomach aches and heartaches and frustrated energy directions seem inextricably spun together. Dr. Dorsey was invited to write this book because he has met the problems of the personality in conflict with its world with the responsibility of the physician rather than with word-play from the lecture platform. The Editor wishes to impress upon the reader the fact that children, real children, and their parents, actual parents, the adolescent and the college student as well as the hospital patient have found in Dr. Dorsey a veritable friend in need. This book will not make light reading. The person is not a subject for anything less than deliberate and patient study. For the reader whose notions about mental hygiene lead him to wish for rules, tricks and nostrums this book is not intended. But for the student who brings to its pages an open mind and a willingness to deliberate, an illuminating, deepening and enriching study lies in store"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).