Maladjustment and Readjustment

We are increasingly conscious in our day of the large number of persons who are maladjusted in themselves and to society. We realise that such persons should not be allowed to drift towards the extreme of maladjustment, which is insanity, without great efforts being made to prevent, when possible, this dissolution. We realise, too, that the situations which tend to bring this about, in so as they are not causes inherent in the organism, are to be sought in the environment of earliest childhood, and we have extended the concept of mental hygiene backwards?from the treatment of the adult " lunatic " to the ner-