New Britain herald., 1926-12-06
COMPLEX AND ITS
 ! EFFECT ON HUMANS
Prof. Vaughan Warns Parents Of Influence on Children

That the lectures on applied psy-
 chology being given by Prof. David
 D. Vaughan, professor of social
 ethics at Boston University. are be-
 ing found helpful in the homes of
 the city, was the statement made yesterday by Dr. Vaughan to the members of Everymans Bible class, at Trinity M. E. church. There were 1SS men present at the meeting. Dr. Vaughan's address was as fol- lows:
 Tt Is gratifying to receive reports, such as have come in this week. of 1 the practical application of the teachings in the class to the prob mems of home life in New Brit ain. Ton have available in Hart 1 ford, an expert psychiatrist, l state specialist qualified to give
 you the best there is for yourselves 1 and for your children. As I talked :, with one man this week l was im- | pressed with the fact that his whole i life might have been changed if the
 facts we have presented here had ! DCtll dpPllcu III IlIS StaSS lItlil q SSii-
 tury ago. Surely the church is eager 1 to know the best that the schools
 can offer. Various efforts indicate l the desire to get back again to the i Great Physician who restored men 1 to mental as we'll as to physical ! health and vigor. Is the curse of ! timidity on your life? In the days i of the Apostolic church the indica- i ton that man had been with Jesus
 was that even unlearned and igno- ant fishermen spoke and lived with boldness. Whence came the heroism of the martyrs? A life of faith.
 hope and love gives joyous coI-fi-
 dence. Compare the discouraged ] Hebrew exiles who hung their [ harps on the willows and refused to
 sing the Lords song in strange
 land with Paul and Silas who sang 1 the prison doors open and who stop ped to bring the ministry of joy and salvation to their prosecutors ae
 evils of a self centered life are cured when that life Is centcred in Jesus
 and such a life is both sane and
 socially useful"
 Infcriority Complex
 Discussing the inferiority complex Prof. Vaughan said: "The instinct Of self preservation is dominant fac tor in human conduct. In civilized society. physical dangers are ce- moved, but psychic interests are in tensifed. One feels the necessity Of maintaining his place in the esteem of his fellow men. If men are de- nted a normal expression of the ego instinct, they are likely to indulge in abnormal and anti-social expres- sions. Men thus suppressed become unhappy and restless. When part of ones self Is crushed, when nor nal self expression is denied so that one is continually forced to feel in- ferior an inferiority complex arises and the individual seeks an outlet tor his suppressed nature. or he may lapse into a state of hopeless, help less inertia, feeling that all effort is futile. An entire life may be blight ed, and crime or condition of ip different idloness and parasitism may result. Speech defects. physi cal defornity. poverty, drunkenness. family disgrace, shame, nagging, criticism and ridicule all play their part in developing a sense of per scnal inferiority.
 Children should not be made to feel that they are unattractive. This is particularly true of girls, since at tractiveness plays a large part in a woman's life. One who Is unpopu- lar or ignored socially looses con- fidence in herself, and becomes pc culiar. and Is further neglected. so that vicious circle Is started. This