THE HUMAN MIND

By KARL A. MENNINGER, Knopf, New York. 1930.

This book is an introduction to psychiatry by the method of the case-history. The author draws material from every-day life, writes felicitously, and is an optimist. Mental abnormality is rarely a doom; it is familiar to all of us, and the prognosis is usually favorable, provided one adopts the rules of mental hygiene, some of which he lists. That this book is the best among the many popular treatments of nervousness and instability is shown by its selection as the book of the month by the Literary Guild, and by its inclusion in the weekly scores of best sellers.

Department of Psychology.