Adventure into the Unconscious
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John Custance. London: Christopher Johnson. Pp. 207. 18/'. It is very difficult to review this unusual book. Mr. Custance (whose earlier book, "Wisdom, Madness and Folly," will be remembered)?is a self-confessed sufferer from manic depressive psychosis, and he has written the different chapters in different phases of his illness. It would be easy therefore to discard the book as being the moonshine of a lunatic. But this would be as unfair as to
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