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Nothing is more common than the idea that we, the peopleliving in the Western world of the twentieth century, are emi-nently sane. Even the fact that a great number of individuals inour midst suffer from more or less severe forms of mental illnessproduces little doubt with respect to the general standard of ourmental health. We are sure that by introducing better methods ofmental hygiene we shall improve still further the state of our men-tal health, and as far as individual mental disturbances are con-cerned, we look at them as strictly individual incidents, perhapswith some amazement that so many of these incidents shouldoccur in a culture which is supposedly so sane.Can we be so sure that we are not deceiving ourselves? Manyan inmate of an insane asylum is convinced that everybody elseis crazy, except himself. Many a severe neurotic believes that hiscompulsive rituals or his hysterical outbursts are normal reac-tions to somewhat abnormal circumstances. What aboutourselves?Let us, in good psychiatric fashion, look at the facts. In the last
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