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This book deals with the effects of social relations upon disordered behavior in contemporary American society. Disordered behavior arises when the person's inability to solve his conflicts leads to a helpless or incapacitated condition of varying degrees of severity. This helplessness results directly or indirectly from obstructions in social participation and in communication. It involves a breakdown in social learning, and it arrests or retards personal development within the area of conflict, for social learning means the ability to select an alternative of action in order to solve a problem. Since the person is a biosocial unity, disordered behavior is affected by biological endowments and by biological injuries and crises. Social relations during infancy and childhood decisively influence the formative bent of personality but do not determine all types of disordered behavior. Within limits, different types of social relations may contribute to different types of disorders. But the types of social relations which the given person experiences do not invariably create specific kinds of conflicts or specific kinds of disorders. The given person's conflicts depend upon the meaning

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Author

Weinberg, Samuel Kirson.

Publisher

Prentice-Hall, 1952.

Published

1952

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction