EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS OF LIVING: AVOIDING THE NEUROTIC PATTERN
by O. Spurgeon English, M.D. and Gerald H. J. Pearson, M.D.
George Allen & Unwin, London, Third Impression, 1965.
Condition: Very good. Black cloth hardcover with gilt spine titling, clean and bright; dust jacket present, showing light surface wear and mild edge toning with small creasing to crown. Interior clean, binding sound.
About the Book
A widely respected guide to emotional adjustment and mental health, Emotional Problems of Living presents a lucid, compassionate account of how personality forms and falters under the pressures of ordinary life. Written for intelligent lay readers as well as students of psychology and medicine, the book explains the development of the individual mind, from childhood through maturity, and explores how maladjustmentsneuroses, anxiety, and frustrationarise in daily experience.
English and Pearson combine psychoanalytic insight with clinical realism, emphasizing the human capacity for adaptation, self-understanding, and recovery from neurotic patterns. Long valued as a humane introduction to psychiatry and emotional growth, the work remains notable for its clarity and absence of jargon.
About the Authors
O. Spurgeon English, M.D. (18841961) was Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University and a major figure in the development of psychosomatic medicine in America.
Gerald H. J. Pearson, M.D., his collaborator, continued Englishs emphasis on practical psychodynamics and patient-centred therapy.
