Love is proverbially blind, but few normal persons would be rash enough knowingly to join fortunes with a neuropathic or degenerate family stock. Unfortunately very little thought is now given to the eugenic significance of marriage and few signs warn impetuous youth of the danger ahead.
Eugenic bureaus, by collecting data concerning family histories and by emphasizing the importance of family stock, would naturally promote marriages among persons of good stock and thereby increase procreation of a desirable kind. The increase of good stock would raise the general level of the race, even if there were no decrease of poor stock, but we may safely assume that more definite knowledge would gradually lessen reproduction among the unfit.
The elimination of mental defects and diseases is after all principally a matter of education. We must learn by careful research what should be done and what should not be done and then disseminate the information so that it will be shared by every household. Action will slowly follow knowledge, but ultimately a more perfect race will be evolved.
MENTAL HYGIENE
QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF
THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Thomas W. Salmon, M.D., Medical Director, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene
Frankwood E. Williams, M.D., Associate Medical Director, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene
Walter E. Fernald, M.D., Superintendent, Massachusetts School for Feebleminded
C. Macfie Campbell, Director, Boston Psychopathic Hospital
Stephen P. Duggan, Ph.D., Professor of Education, College of the City of New York
Stewart Paton, M.D., Lecturer in Neuro-biology, Princeton University
| Vol. V, No. 4 INDEX October, 1921 | ||
| The Significance of the Conditioned Reflex in Mental Hygiene, | William H. Burnham | 673 |
| The Elementary School and the Individual Child | Esther Loring Richards | 707 |
| Extra-Medical Service in the Management of Misconduct Problems in Children | Marion E. Kenworthy | 724 |
| Mental Hygiene and the College Student—Twenty Years After | Anonymous | 736 |
| Mental Hygiene Problems of Normal Adolescence | Jessie Taft | 741 |
| Suicide in Massachusetts | Albert Warren Stearns | 752 |
| The Function of the Correctional Institution | Herman M. Adler | 778 |
| What is a “Nervous Breakdown”? | Alice E. Johnson | 784 |
| Mental Hygiene and the Public Library | Mary Vida Clark | 791 |
| Inadequate Social Examinations in Psychopathic Clinics | Dorothy Q. Hale | 794 |
| Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease | Horatio M. Pollock | 807 |
| Mental Hygiene Problems of Maladjusted Children As Seen in a Public Clinic | A. L. Jacoby | 813 |
| Speech Defects in School Children | Smiley Blanton | 820 |
| Extra-Institutional Care of Mental Defectives | Earl W. Fuller | 828 |
| Abnormal Psychology | Barrington Gates | 836 |
| Abstracts: | ||
| The Problem of a Psychopathic Hospital Connected with a Reformatory Institution. By Edith R. Spaulding | 837 | |
| A Psychological Study of Some Mental Defects in the Normal Dull Adolescent. By L. Pierce Clark | 840 | |
| The Social Worker’s Approach to the Family of the Syphilitic. By Maida H. Solomon | 843 | |
| Some Practical Points in the Organization of Treatment of Syphilis in a State Hospital. By Aaron J. Rosanoff | 844 | |
| The Mental Clinic and the Community. By Everett S. Elwood | 845 | |
| An Analysis of Suicidal Attempts. By Lawson G. Lowrey | 846 | |
| Book Reviews: | ||
| Psychopathology. By Edward J. Kempf | Bernard Glueck | 848 |
| The Unconscious. By Morton Prince | William A. White | 849 |
| A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. By Sigmund Freud | Bernard Glueck | 851 |
| Sleepwalking and Moon Walking. B. J. Sadger | C. Macfie Campbell | 851 |
| From the Unconscious to the Conscious. By Gustave Geley | William A. White | 855 |
| Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion. By Charles Baudouin | Bernard Glueck | 856 |
| Psychology and Psychotherapy. By William Brown | C. Macfie Campbell | 857 |
| Our Social Heritage. By Graham Wallas | Miriam C. Gould | 858 |
| August Strindberg: A Psychoanalytic Study with Special Reference to the Œdipus Complex. By Axel Johan Uppvall | Frankwood E. Williams | 861 |
| Notes and Comments | 878 | |
| Current Bibliography | Dorothy E. Morrison | 891 |
| Directory of Committees and Societies for Mental Hygiene | 894 | |
| Members and Directors of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene | 895 | |
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