Tragic Failures

In a Darkness, by James A. Wechsler, with Nancy F. Wechsler and Holly W. Karpf (Norton, 160 pp., $5.95)

This book is a story of failure: of young Michael Wechsler’s to grow up; of James and Nancy Wechsler’s to bring him up; and of psychiatry’s to help him. It is a heart-rending, but also a stomach-turning, account.

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In a Darkness, by James A. Wechsler, with Nancy F. Wechsler and Holly W. Karpf (Norton, 160 pp., $5.95)

This book is a story of failure: of young Michael Wechsler’s to grow up; of James and Nancy Wechsler’s to bring him up; and of psychiatry’s to help him. It is a heart-rending, but also a stomach-turning, account.