Starting out as an attorney in the depths of the Great Depression, Milton Wexler moved from law to psychoanalysis, training with Theodor Reik in the 1930s, and working at the famed Menninger Foundation in the 1940s. In 1951, with the diagnosis of Huntington´s disease in his wife´s family, he moved to Los Angeles, where he entered private practice, later starting the Hereditary Disease Foundation, a non-profit research organization dedicated to curing Huntington’s and other genetic and neurological disorders. In A Look Through the Rearview Mirror, Wexler tells of his quest to understand and heal some of our most intractable illnesses, while also revealing the human, and sometimes humorous side, of a psychoanalyst’s life.