The Vital Balance: The Life Process in Mental Health

by Karl A. Menninger, Martin Mayman, Paul W. Pruyser

The name & the natureThe urge to classifyThe evolution of diagnosisThe evolution of treatmentToward a theory of human behaviorCoping devices of everyday livingThe first of five orders of dysfunctionA second order of the neurotic syndromes & personalitiesA third order of naked aggressionDysfunction of a fourth & a fifth orderThe role of the physician in the illness-recovery processPrevention, endurance & transcendence Attest & ExhibitsNotesIndes

544 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 1963

About the author

Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 – July 18, 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.