Inmitten aller Sterne

New York: Peter Thomas Fisher, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. Thin octavo. Off-white cloth gilt. Text in German. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze, (a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex) and his wife, psychologist Vivian on the front fly, boards bowed, soiling on the boards, a good copy. Inscribed by the author: "To Vivian & Henry with the love of a physiological (& psychological) co-traveller. Ruth. August 1961."

Ruth Cohn was a German-born psychotherapist best known as the creator of Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI), a method of group learning. (The Ruth Cohn Institute for TCI International is today headquartered in Basel.) Cohn left Germany in 1933 and, as a German Jew, lost her German citizenship in 1936. Cohn immigrated to the U.S. in 1941 and returned to Europe (Switzerland) in 1974. She writes in the introductory letter to another volume: "T.C.I. germinated in my experience of the Nazi holocaust and its apathetic surroundings. I longed as a student of psychoanalysis for therapeutic ways which would not limit progress in awareness and communication to patients and some eager students but would spread to the population at large - so 'it would never happen again.'