Format:
Online-Ressource (167 p.)
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ill
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28 cm
Content:
"This book is partly a product of the conviction that everybody has to handle a lot of important psychological problems in the course of his everyday life, and that these problems are generally too complex and too significant to be left merely to our commonsense knowledge. More fundamentally still, it reflects the conviction that the content of introductory courses in psychology should be decided by an analysis of the present and probable future lives of students. Especially, it seems to me that some serious discussion of personality processes belongs in the introductory course, on the grounds that many of the practical problems which a student will face are problems within this field. The problems of personality are important directly, as individual problems. They are important also because a study of them may help us to get some background for our urgent task of coming to understand more adequately the modern, problems of war, social organization, and economic life. This book proceeds from such an avowedly practical slant. And yet, it is based just as truly on the conviction that, provided a student has the intellectual ability to permit this approach, the problems of personality should be approached in terms of some penetrating theoretical system, rather than merely by the citation of a long list of highly particular rules"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Reprint of 1941. - Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2011 dcunns
Language:
English
