"Tue New PsycnonoGy AnD THE Parent." By H. Crichton Miller.
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If Mr. Bultitude had only read Dr. Crichton Miller, he would have recognized that his unhappy son was suffering from a Father Complex or something equally dreadful, and he would have taken him to Harley-street—though possibly a course of Dr. George Robey at The Hippodrome would have been more efficacious. Mr. Bultitude him, self would then have escaped the Grimstone Complex, but: we should have missed Vice Versa," so perhaps all is for the best in this the worst of all possible worlds Dr. Miller certainly has the gift of writing very clearly and very, pleasantly about a difficult subject. Ho tries to make the mysteries of the developing mind and body plain to the puzzled parent who is wondering anxiously what has come over Harold or Elaine, and if he does no more than encourage us to be patient and. watchful he will have done well. In dozen chapters, each with its useful summary, he deals with such topics as the failures of parenthood, the development of the boy and the girl, the unconscious motive, the symbolism of dreams, the herd instinct, religious education, and sex instruction. We like his story of the little girl, who, having heard. the Commandments rehearsed in church, naturally asked what adultery was, being-told: that it. was something she couldn't understand, she indignantly -asked, '(What is the use of the clergyman telling us not to do it if he don't know what it is?" (The story ig worth thinking about. Even psychoanalysts might learn something from it.
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