This new volume by Dr. Menninger comes from the press a few months after the publication of the re-written edition of his unusually successful book, The Human Mind. In presentation, appeal and approach, Man Against Himself follows the construction of The Human Mind. The latter's familiar style and occasional over-emphasis seem permissible in a book designed to acquaint the general public with diverse aspects of modern psychiatry. The quality, therefore, of the later book compels the reviewer to regard it either as a popular work, or as one dealing seriously with the extremely intricate hypothesis of the death instinct. The controversial