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Pederson-Krag, G. (1949). Which Way Out. Stories Based on the Experience of a Psychiatrist: By C. P. Oberndorf, M.D. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1949. 236 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 18:510-511.

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(1949). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 18:510-511

Which Way Out. Stories Based on the Experience of a Psychiatrist: By C. P. Oberndorf, M.D. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1949. 236 pp.

Geraldine Pederson-Krag Author Information

This is a collection of short stories illustrating such conditions as transitory mania, suicidal depressions, female homosexuality, hysterical paralysis, and malingering with socioeconomic implications. Though written in a style pleasantly reminiscent of Conan Doyle, O. Henry, and de Morgan, they should not be appraised by comparison with fiction. The writer of fiction creates characters to still his own conscious or unconscious urges, makes them from fragments of his own psyche, infuses them with his own breath. Through his art the reader transiently knows what it is like to experience the emotional stress portrayed. Not so in Which Way Out. Dr. Oberndorf depicts rather how it feels to observe people in stress, and the interplay of forces which resulted in the unusual conduct. As a result these tales recall the way clinical medicine is learned, not by dint of scanning symptoms printed in a textbook, but rather by familiarity with certain individuals who typify the ailments fro

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