MENTAL HYGIENE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page VIII (Supplement)

MENTAL HYGIENE

“Towards Peace of Mind,” everyday problems of mental health, by Karl M. Bowman (London: Allen and Unwin). Dr. Bowman is an assistant professor in the medical school at Harvard University, and chief medical officer at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, ouc of the most famous of its kind in the world. His object in this book is to explain the principles of mental hygiene and set out the established facts of human nature in such a way as to make his explanations clearly intelligible to the lay public. In this he succeeds admirably. The average person after reading his book should have a clearer understanding of himself and of the manner in which to deal with his persoual problems. Dr. Bowman covers most aspects of mental life, giving due weight to hereditary physical factors as well as to the iutlueuees of society aud environment. After dealing with fundamental conditions, the nervous system, the glands of internal secretion and physical disease, ho discusses the problems of ebilil training, industrial efficiency, domestic happiness, mental fatigue, sex and marriage, the use of mental stimulants aud sedatives, and moral and spiritual values. His book is entirely., ! practical in its application and sound in the opinions and advice it expresses.