Books: Joseph Collins

Literature Looks at the Doctor

It must, I imagine, give a man something of the feeling of a Zeus, or at least of some lesser god, to be possessed of the training and the ability to fathom the minds and motives of mankind. Joseph Collins has that. He is a rather startling combination—the eminent physician and the literary critic. His interest in the mechanics of mentality is matched only by his interest in the literary products springing from the mentality. His The Doctor Looks at Literature has been received with a good deal of...

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