Review of Personality and problems of adjustment

Abstract

Reviews the book, Personality and problems of adjustment by Kimball Young (1940). Young's book on personality has been years in the making, and our anticipation as to its merits have been justified by the outcome. Perhaps the author has even gone a little too far on the quantitative side, with over 800 pages, much of it fine print, dealing with the personality and its problems. Nevertheless, it is all material which deserves our serious attention, and perhaps the size of the book merely underscores the magnitude of the problem. The book is divided into three parts: foundations of personality, selected problems of personal adjustment, and certain wider implications. This volume should receive wide consideration and become a basic text in courses which are organized around the personality in its social context. I commend it also to those psychologists who tend to over-emphasize the study of the individual divorced from his environment. It should prove an excellent corrective for such tendencies in thinking. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)