MALE AND FEMALE. By Margaret Mead. New York, William Morrow and Co., 1949. 477 pp. $5.00. Margaret Mead has made an assumption, not necessarily held by all present day sexologists, that there is a fundamental difference between the human male and the human female, and has utilized four hundred and seventy-seven pages in impressive documentation of this thesis. Seven Southwest Pacific societies,...

Similarly in civil life people who are temperamentally or physically unfit for their job in life become Neurotic. Any instinct may be at the root of the neurosis, but the commonest are the instinct of selfPreservation and the sexual instinct. In civil life the neurosis is much less effective for the attainment ?f its end than it was during the war. It is not a rational way out of the unpleasant...

This book was compiled by devoted colleagues from manuscripts, after the auth^ death. Dr. Angyal must certainly have been an original and stimulating teacher. " states that neurosis is not a partial disturbance, limited to just one province of P sonality. "Neurosis is a sweeping condition. It is, in fact, a way of life?self-destf^ tive to be sure, but nonetheless a way of life." His key idea is...