Author: EHRENWALD, JAN
Title: Neurosis in the Family and Patterns of Psychosocial Defense: A Study of Psychiatric Epidemiology
Description: New York, Harper & Row. 1963, First Edition. hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library, The author presents here case material from his own practice - including a detailed psychoanalytic study of the "obscomp" family tree, consisting of four generations of obessive compulsive personalities observed by the author for 15 years. Out of his studies of this and scores of other families comes the author's theory concerning the spread of neurotic attitudes from the family to the community at large and from one generation to the next. To amplify the material from his own practice the author devotes separate chapters to fascinatng discussions of the histories of two famous child prodigies, Mozart and Picasso. These revealing chapters clearly show how the same laws of famiy dynamics apply to genius and neurotic alike. Library stamp to spine of dust jacket and FEP, stamp to inside covers, page 99, FEP, title page, BEP and page block, sme light pencil marking, some score marks to cloth cover and cloth is weak, but book is tight. Dust jacket is worn around all edges and generally tattered but still intact. Good/Poor.

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