"Bad faith" as the author calls the dissonance between what we profess to believe, how we act and how we interpret our own behaviour, is more than a theme in Mark Twain. Robinson shows that Twain's view of man's social nature can be traced to an awareness of the deceits at the core of his culture.
Searching out the private man as well as the public figure, this elegantly written biography follows Henry Murray through his life as a pioneer in the field of clinical psychology, as a co-founder of Harvard's Psychological Clinic, as the co-inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test, and as a biographer of Herman Melville.
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