[First Edition] The Individual Delinquent: A Text-Book of...

Boards show only light shelfwear; gutters slightly cracked, but binding tight; pages clean with prior owner signature on front endpaper and title page. Healy was a psychiatrist and criminologist who established the nation's first child guidance clinic and served as the first president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association; 'The Individual Delinquent' was his first and most important work. 'Psychologists, physicians, religious leaders, school people, and, not least of all, parents, should be in possession of many of our fundamental facts. All who have to deal with offenders need the utmost possible understandings of human beings.' A surprisingly uncommon title. 3.7 pounds. 830 pages.

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