num_pages: 444
description: 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.
language: English
title: Man Against Himself
titlecomplete: Man Against Himself
genres: Psychology, Self Help, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 121
publisher: HarperOne