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Mine Own Executioner

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Almost as successful is Mine Own Executioner (1945), a study of a psychiatrist unable to cure his own neuroses and of the tensions created in his marriage by his lack of self-confidence. The problems of the psychologically and physically disabled are a recurrent theme: the hero of A Sort…
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