Talks to parents and teachers / by Homer Lane.

  • Lane, Homer Tyrrell, 1876-1925.
Date:
1928
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Credit: Talks to parents and teachers / by Homer Lane. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    onwards financially responsible for these children. He had no income of his own, though friends helped him through the crisis, and set to work to earn his living at first by lecturing on education and psychology. He was attached for a time as a lecturer to the Australian Expeditionary Force, and in this capacity gave a course of lectures at Cambridge. Gradually he turned from lecturing to personal work as a con¬ sulting psychologist, at first chiefly with teachers, for his dominant interest was always in education. His long and careful observation of children and of adolescents had convinced him that many of the ail¬ ments and much of the unhappiness of later years are traceable to errors of treatment in childhood, which can subsequently be retrieved. In this work his really remarkable achievements in physical and mental treatment were little known outside the circle of his friends : he never allowed his success to be advertised. Lane was a student, but also a critic, of Freud and of Jung. He belonged to no “ school.” He was a particularly open-minded and liberal student of his subject, free from dogmatism and working out his practice as he went. Many men and women suffering from nervous depression and various types of spiritual disorder owed to him the recovery of power over themselves and their work, and renewed happiness in marriage or in social life. Those who have any knowledge of psycho-therapeutics will realize that it is impossible, in many such cases, to give help to people, and especially to those of the opposite sex, without great risk to the helper. In February 1925 Lane was