ABSTRACT
Inability to live out emotional reactions through adequate channels makes for efforts to forget and attempts to push the disagreeable thoughts from attention. Women in this situation often seek a means of flight, so to speak, from themselves. Work for them may be a form of protection. Many women disappointed in love or marriage take up nursing or go into a sisterhood. If conceive of the psychobiological development of a woman as a growth of mental and physical capacities, will recognize that there must be a unification of functions in the mental and physical realms. The components must be developed harmoniously if there is to be ease of activity. In modern civilization, a new problem has been presented to women in the breaking down of old economic and social barriers and the opening up of new opportunities. The traditional limitation of activity, the necessity for protection and support, are being challenged on all sides.
