The Vital Balance: The Life process in Mental Health and Illness
Entry/Object ID
2012.2.4240
Secondary Title
"The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness"
Description
"The Vital Balance" by Karl Menninger, MD with Martin Mayman, Ph.D., and Paul Prusyer, Ph.D.
Pale yellow and blue cover with "THE VITAL BALANCE: The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness" in blue lettering.
Table of Contents include:
I. The Name and the Nature
II. The Urge to Classify
III. The Evolution of Diagnosis
IV. The Evolution of Treatment
V. Toward a Theory of Human Behavior
VI. Toward a Theory of Human Behavior (Continued)
VII. Coping Devices of Everyday Living
VIII. The First of Five Orders of Dysfunction
IX. A Second Order of Dyscontrol: the "Neurotic" Syndromes and Personalities
X. A Third Order of Dyscontrol: Naked Aggression
XI. Dysfunction of a Fourth and Fifth Order
XII. Determinants of the Course of Illness
XIII. The Role of the Physician in the Illness-Recovery Process
XIV. The Role of the Physician (Continued)
XV. The Role of Physician (Continued)
XVI. Prevention, Endurance, and Transcendence
