Review of Personality: Its Development and Hygiene

Abstract

Reviews the book, Personality: Its Development and Hygiene by Winifred V. Richmond (1937). The reviewer concludes that like practically every other book which sets out to be a text on personality, Dr. Richmond's volume lays heavy stress on the pathological side of human behavior. It seems to me that this represents a serious misconception of the psychology of personality. From a psychologist's viewpoint, the book seems unevenly written. At times it seems destined for a popular audience, with few technical terms and the factual material spread very thinly. At other times the material (e.g., on Freudian mechanisms) is presented in very compact form and in terminology which the average student, with only a general psychology course as background, will find difficult reading. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)