Download or read book Man Against Himself written by Karl Augustus Menninger and published by HarperOne. This book was released on 1938 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book, the impulse toward self-destructiveness is examined as a misdirection of the instinct for survival, a turning inward of the aggressive behavior developed for self-preservation. "One of the most absorbing books I have read in recent years" (Joseph Wood Krutch, The Nation). Index.