The World Within - fiction on the neuroses of our time - by Mary Louis Aswell

The World Within: fiction illuminating the neuroses of our time
edited by Mary Louise Aswell
introduction and notes by Frederic Wertham
published by Whittlesey House / The McGraw-Hill Book Company

First Edition, 1946

Hardcover in very good used condition,
chipping and edge wear to dust jacket.
Toning throughout pages, text is clean and unmarked.

"The world within, that inner kingdom of the mind, is a theme which has fascinated writers for all times. One has only to look at the stories, the movies, the theatre of the few years - to realize that the password to present-day popularity in literature lies in the magic word "Psychiatry." It is just because there has been such a constant misuse of psychiatric material in recent literature that Mary Louise Aswell, literary editor of Harper's Bazaar, and Dr. Frederic Wertham, prominent psychiatrist, have collected and analyzed those few truly fine examples of the literary mind at work on the "world within" of this century and the last. "