Review of Personality Adjustment and Domestic Discord

Abstract

Reviews the book, Personality Adjustment and Domestic Discord by Harriet R. Mowrer (1935). As a plainly written, realistic treatment of problems in which almost all of us have shared to some extent, it makes a personal appeal. As a contribution to methodology it deserves serious consideration. But most of all it is valued as a highly efficient job of interpreting personality in terms of the cultural approach. The cases reported deal with a wide variety of marriage problems, some dependent upon the patterns of personality laid down long before marriage, others growing more directly out of the marriage situation and relations. In all cases emphasis is placed on personalities and not on situations. To psychologists who are not thoroughly acquainted with the cultural approach to personality, this book is heartily recommended as a stimulant to the thought processes. To teachers, the book is recommended as required reading in social psychology, the family, and the psychology of personality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)