VERY NICELY INSCRIBED, DATED (1938) AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR KARL MENNINGER.
This is the stated Fifth Printing in September 1938. The date of the inscription From "Will & Karl Menninger" to "Dr. Alan M. Drummond" is Christmas 1938.
The dust jacket has heavy wear along the edges with small tears and chips, and is also soiled, but is intact all around and now handsomely portrayed in a mylar jacket. The book below is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Clean black cloth boards with gilt spine letters. Pink/red top stain, 485 clean and solidly bound pages, no marks beyond the author inscription.
On the book from an online summary:
"In this landmark book, the impulse toward self-destructiveness is examined as a misdirection of the instinct for survival, a turning inward of the aggressive behavior developed for self-preservation. "One of the most absorbing books I have read in recent years" (Joseph Wood Krutch, The Nation)."
On Karl Menninger from Wikipedia:
"Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 – July 18, 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas...
... During his career, Menninger wrote a number of influential books. In his first book, The Human Mind, Menninger argued that psychiatry was a science and that the mentally ill were only slightly different from healthy individuals. In The Crime of Punishment, Menninger argued that crime was preventable through psychiatric treatment; punishment was a brutal and inefficient relic of the past. He advocated treating offenders like the mentally ill.
His subsequent books include The Vital Balance, Man Against Himself and Love Against Hate."
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