Normality: Theoretical and Clinical Concepts of Mental Health by Daniel Offer and Melvin Sabshir

Normality: Theoretical and Clinical Concepts of Mental Health
by Daniel Offer and Melvin Sabshir
with a foreword by Roy R. Grinkers, Sr.

New York: Basic Books
First edition, 1966

SIGNED and inscribed by Offer facing the title page.

Condition: Hardcover; no dust jacket, cover boards show very minor apparent wear. The front-free endpage has the previous owner's name markered-out and some very minor surface wear--see photo. There are a lot of pages with very neat underlining in pen up until page 164. Only a few written notes. Binding is secure.

wiki: "The study of normality: During the beginning of the Offer Longitudinal Study, Offer became interested in how mental health professionals defined normality. Working with Melvin Sabshin, they defined the four perspectives of what constitutes normal behavior. They are: normality as health, as utopia, as average and as process. To broaden knowledge of what constitutes normal behavior, Offer and Sabshin with colleagues looked at normality throughout life as well as normality in different settings."