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The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness
de Menninger, Karl
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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New York: The Viking Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Lower quarter of books publisher's full blue cloth over grey boards, blue lettering on spine and cover, top edge blue. . Top edge slightly soiled, dust jacket slightly worn, else tight, square, unmarked, and clean. VERY GOOD/GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 531 pp .
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El Jun 4 2007, Learningaramaic dijo:
This wise book-- by one of the greatest psychodynamicly-oriented psychiatrists of the 20th century-- explores human psychosocial function as a "total system" years before Bertalanffy and the General Systems people made its approach into a rigorous discipline in mental health.
Simply put, what Dr. Menninger calls the "vital balance" is equivalent to the human potential for homeostasis in the psychic and social areas. There is nothing mystical or superstitious about this notion, albeit is is holistic and not reductionist.
What is not well-appreciated is that-- given enough inputs/outputs-- the "steady state" of the vital balance Menninger discusses can be described mathematically. BUT FEAR NOT ON THIS NOTICE! NOT A SINGLE MATH FORMULA APPEARS IN MENNINGER'S BOOK HERE, DESPITE THIS COMPLETE COMPLEMENTARITY IN HARD-SYSTEMS TERMINOLOGY.
THE VITAL BALANCE was pressed in 1963; while it was reprinted several times, I understand it can be obtained only in used-bookstores. Pity! This work was well-ahead-of-its-time upon pressing, and I consider it to be CUTTING-EDGE PSYCHIATRY unto this day. This work was the most-consistent and most-rigorous contribution by "Dr. Karl," as he is known at the Menninger Clinic-- is well-crafted theory fit for the family-systems practitioners, the quantifiers, and all in mental health who seek a comprehensive framework within which one can cast the PROCESS OF GETTING WELL PSYCHOLOGICALLY.
--Vernon Lynn Stephens, M.S.S.W.
D.S.M. IV # 350
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10:49 p.m. -- Monday, June 4, 2007
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- Librería
- Round Table Books, LLC
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 23450
- Título
- The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health and Illness
- Autor
- Menninger, Karl
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard Cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edición
- Fifth Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- The Viking Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1964
- Palabras clave
- Psychology;, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mental Breakdown, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Religion & Mythology; Philosophy & Social Sciences;
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Palatine, Illinois
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