LONELINESS IN CITIES
ONE CAUSE OF NEUROSIS STRAINS IN MODERN LIFE Neurosis was often caused by loneliness in large cities, which could be the loneliest places in the world, said Dr. John Bostock, of Queensland, in a paper on neurotic conditions of modern life, which he read at the Australian Medical Conference at Adelaide. City life, he added, was producing a type of mind which was unhappy away from its confines. He urged more concentration bv doctors on. mental hygiene. Democracy was facing very rapidly increasing crops of neurosis, and the profession, he asserted, was halfheartedly attacking the branches instead of dealing with the roots.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22845, 28 September 1937, Page 5
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