Psycho-analysis : the key to human behavior

This concise introduction presents psycho-analysis as both a possible approach to mental and physical disorders and a tool for understanding everyday human behavior. It examines how unconscious motives may influence our loves, dislikes, fears, habits, and seemingly insignificant actions, often revealing meanings hidden beneath surface appearances. The discussion also challenges older assumptions about insanity and abnormality, arguing that compassionate understanding should replace superstition and punishment.

Aimed at general readers, the book surveys the ways psycho-analytic ideas can illuminate social, educational, industrial, physical, and personal problems. It invites listeners to look beyond conventional explanations and consider how buried conflicts and primitive emotions shape individual lives and society. Written from the perspective of the psychoanalytic thought of its era, it offers a compact, historically revealing guide to the movement’s claims about neurosis, self-knowledge, and human possibility.