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Man Against Himself
by Karl Menninger
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 Harcourt, Brace & World, New York. c1938 but on copyright is stamped N.9.62 making this a 1962 printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O names and stamps on the front endpapers. Book Condition: Very Good; shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; bumping to head and tail; price clipped FFFP upper corner; small splash stain on textblock top. DJ; Good; Price Clipped; sunfaded spine; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light wear to flap folds. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 485 pp 8vo. One of the things about suicide is that it’s somehow an internal conflict that boils over into an act of self-aggression. It’s this very real consideration that leads to Karl Menninger’s 1938 classic book, Man Against Himself. In it, he seeks to expose his experiences with people who choose to harm themselves – through suicide and other ways. His belief is that our best defense against self-destructiveness is to bravely expose the inner thoughts of those troubled souls who choose self-harm so we may design interventions against them. With case histories that are both human and dramatic, the author shows how often men's bad luck, failure, and acute illnesses result from a subconscious will toward self-defeat. He demonstrated how various diseases and misfortunes resulting from the self-destructive impulse may be cured. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015088
- Title
- Man Against Himself
- Author
- Karl Menninger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Karl Menninger, mental health, suicide, self-destruction, self-defeat, self-destructive impulse, illness, mental illness, psychiatry, crime, bad luck, alcoholism, unhappiness,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Spine
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