ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that educators and social psychologists need to place more stress on things that an individual can only do for himself than in the case of physical health. In particular it may be questioned whether S. Freud and others have been right in attributing the causes or reasons of this irrationality to experiences in early childhood. Even in adults, it is often very hard to distinguish the two in practice: and it is even harder in the case-history of the child, where distinction between conscious and unconscious processes is less sharp. The post-Freudian picture suggests to educators and social psychologists a point, which may serve further to demolish the view that 'mental health' is the rule rather than the exception. Educators and social psychologists judgements on the rationality or irrationality of individuals must take into account the degree of consciousness which an individual has achieved, as well as the degree of rationality that he consciously displays.
