Review of Mental hygiene and education

Abstract

Reviews the book, Mental hygiene and education by Mandel Sherman (1934). Aware of the growing interest on the part of psychologists and psychiatrsts in the problems of childhood in the field of education and mental hygiene and seeing the need of psychiatric knowledge on the part of the teacher, the author has attempted to meet this need in bringing together in one volume information for the teacher. In the author's own words, "this book has been planned to aid teachers to discover and understand the emotional and personality problems of their pupils and to institute classroom treatment. It also describes the kinds of problems which cannot be dealt with adequately in the classroom, and should be referred to a psychiatrist for treatment." Throughout this work the author has used factual data when obtainable. These data have been interpreted in the light of his clinical experiences. Further, these interpretations have been applied to educational problems. The book is rich in illustrative case material of a representative sort. The author has brought together a fund of scientific information in the field of mental hygiene and put it into understandable form for those who are interested in education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)