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This article is only available in the PDF format. Download the PDF to view the article, as well as its associated figures and tables. Abstract This is a book by a man who knows as much about the Western mind as anyone, and as much about its transition too since he has been observing, thinking, and writing as a psychoanalyst, philosopher, and scientist for at least 50 of his 70 years. This is a book having an amazing combination of liveliness with reflective power and quiet wisdom. I feel sure that if one read the book without having the biographical end-flaps on the cover or without knowing anything about the author he would imagine that a spirited and brilliant man of thirty had managed to absorb a great deal of history, scientific theory, and philosphy while remaining acutely in touch with his times. The theme to which Alexander returns time and again throughout his wide-ranging discussion of the problems of individual mind and Western culture in this: The deterioration or surrender of former values and
Archives of Internal Medicine – American Medical Association
Published: Apr 1, 1961
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