The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health

by Karl A. Menninger, Martin Mayman, Paul Pruyser

Book Overview

Written with Martin Mayman and Paul Pruyser, Menninger describes the changes in psychology and the contributions of Freud. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067000216X
• ISBN13: 9780670002160
• Release Date: August 1967
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 531 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Vital Balance

Widely acknowledged as a basic work, The Vital Balance offers a new, unitary concept of mental health and illness which dispenses with the old confusing labels and substitutes a method of diagnosis and treatment in which all disturbed states of the mind and the emotions are seen as stages in a single process. It marks the culmination of a complete revolution in the outlook of psychiatry - from helpless resignation to active hope and assurance. --- from book's back cover