| Description |
xii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Destruction -- Suicide -- Chronic suicide -- Focal suicide -- Organic suicide -- Reconstruction |
| 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) |
| Notes |
"A Harvest/HBJ book." |
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, c1938 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Self-destructive behavior.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychopathology.
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Suicide.
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| LC no. |
85008504 |
| ISBN |
0156565145 (paperback) |
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