Publisher's Synopsis
Confidential conversation of an outstanding psychiatrist with each of us, with the average statistical representation of humanity, a "little man". A psychiatrist with many years of experience tells how he watched with horror what the "little man" was doing over himself: how he suffers and resists, how he exalts his enemies and kills his friends, how, having achieved power, he abuses it and makes it even more cruel than the one he overthrew. Reich urges us to look at ourselves honestly, to realize that the responsibility for our life and for the huge hidden potential inherent in the depths of human nature lies with each of us, and no one else.