An account is given of the historical origin of mixed blood persons in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. The concept of marginal personality is discussed and considered to be clinically useful. Personality development is outlined and it is postulated that certain tension-reducing devices among persons of mixed blood are responsible for an observed minimal rate of overt psychosis.
“Suffering which falls to our lot in the course of nature, or by chance, or fate, does not seem so painful as suffering which is inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
—Schopenhauer.
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