(1) Psychology of the Normal and the Subnormal (2) Psychology and the Day's Work: A Study in the Application of Psychology to Daily Life (3) The Child's Unconscious Mind: The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education: A Book for Teachers and Parents

Abstract

UNTIL the last half-century psychology was based almost exclusively upon the observation of a highly intelligent and highly civilised type of mind—usually the mind of the psychologist himself. Modern psychology owes its remarkable progress chiefly to two factors: first, to the addition of the method of experiment to the method of observation; and secondly—a factor the importance of which is less generally recognised—to the extension of these two methods to the study of simpler types of minds—of the minds of animals, of children, of savages, and of abnormal adults. The recent increase in the number of institutions for feeble-minded children has now provided psychology with the simplest human material available for investigation. Just as the ultra-rapid camera slows down the kinematographic picture of the swift movements of leaping and running, so Nature, by an arrest of the brain, retards the normal development of the child so that it can be observed and tested at leisure.

(1) Psychology of the Normal and the Subnormal.

By Dr. H. H. Goddard. Pp. xxiv + 349. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 25s. net.

(2) Psychology and the Day's Work: A Study in the Application of Psychology to Daily Life.

By Prof. E. J. Swift. Pp. ix + 388. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1918.) Price 10s. 6d. net.

(3) The Child's Unconscious Mind: The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education: A Book for Teachers and Parents.

By Dr. Wilfrid Lay. Pp. vii + 329. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 10s. net.