Man Against Himself: A Landmark Study of Self-Preservation and the Impulse Toward Self-Destruction

Menninger, Karl

ISBN 10: 0156565145 / ISBN 13: 9780156565141

Published by HarperOne, 1956

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Man Against Himself: A Landmark Study of Self-Preservation and the Impulse Toward Self-Destruction
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication Date: 1956
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156565145
• ISBN 13: 9780156565141
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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). Index.

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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. The self-imposed illness, despair, even suicide, that result from this conflict are compassionately yet objectively analyzed and documented through case histories. Drawing on the work of such pioneers as Ferenczi, Groddeck, Jelliffe, White, Alexander, and Simmel, Menninger shows that intelligent self-knowledge can bring self-respect and understanding into man's psychological war against himself--on the side of self-preservation.