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In this chapter I am going to discuss a topic which is often overlooked in the description of human affairs; the interaction between the neurotic and the society in which he lives. Society impinges upon the individual and causes him to react. However, in the same sense that any of us are responsible for our behaviour, the neurotic is also. Behaviour resulting from neurotic attitudes affects a person’s family, his workmates and the other people around him. This is what we will explore in this chapter.
‘Nature urges that a man should wish human society to exist and should wish to enter it.
(Cicero, De Officiis, I. iv)
‘It is to the weakest and most unfortunate that society owes most diligent protection and care’.
Jean Colombier 1736–1789, quoted R. Semelaigne, ‘Les Pionniers’
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Sims, A. (1983). Social Aspects of Neurosis. In: Neurosis in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17113-2_8
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