This paper reviews some common attitudes towards TB, their sources and, offers suggestions for their management. It is suggested that the whole topic of human relationships needs to be studied and considered in relation to the problem of control of TB. Patients arrive at the sanatorium with some degree of emotional disturbance. Where morale is good and careful thought is given to the range of human personality reactions, most patients will adjust satisfactorily and respond as expected to treatment. However, a large majority can be expected to encounter serious difficulties during or after their hospitalisation, mainly because of emotional disturbances. These disturbances cannot always be avoided, but usually their occurrence can be foreseen and their seriousness modified if there has been an adequate personality investigation early in the patient's stay. Likewise, intelligent planning to cope with the social and rehabilitation problems of the patient will go forward much more realistically from such a base. Certainly, in terms of practical management, pulmonary TB can be as much a disease of the personality as it is of the lungs.