From the back "The new 'third force' school of psychology believes that there is at least one other major source of influence over behavior that cannot be attributed either to environment or heredity. This new concept of affirmation, of self-fulfillment, received much of its impetus from Franklin J. Shaw. His essays and lectures on this concept have been collected and edited posthumously and are now available in this compact volume. They focus upon the problem of man's overcoming 'the impasse. that habit, social pressure, and biological thrust place in his way.' It was Shaw's belief that the problems besetting man could be resolved by reconciling the contradictions causing those problems. The papers in this book concern themselves with these processes of reconciliation, of man 'transcending all manner of bondage.' "
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