The Integrity of the Personality Author:Anthony Storr "Self-realization is not an anti-social principl; it is firmly based on the fact that men need each other in order to be themselves." — With this axiom of psychology Anthony Storr, at the outset of an excellent and simple study of human personality, counters the fear expressed by Bertrand Russell and others that analytical psycho-therapy may tend... more » to produce an anarchical race of Byrons or Hitlers.
Tolerant and impartial in tone, his book stands securely on the ground that it is common to Freudian, Jungian, and other schools of psychology. Maintaining that many roads lead to self-realization, he discusses in successive chapters the mental mazes of identification, introjection, projection, and dissociation, through which the individual, sooner or later, must find his way on the path to maturity.« less