1947 Year Book of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

1947 Year Book of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Abstract

[Dec.“superior,” affective, a primary role with respect to the “totality” of man. Neither is man the result of their summation or their correlation. For the individual exists as a unity before the differentiation and development of the single functions. It is along the path thus delineated that modern psychology liberates itself from the bondage of cartesian prejudice which tends to confine it tointellectual,or volitional-hasthe physician or psychiatrist seeking new information on the subject, the book will be something ofa disappointment.K.OF NEUROLOGY,M.B.NEUROSURGERY.M. D.,rology),atry), surgery).the study of interior experience. chology is enabled to concentrate can be observed, described, andAs a result, psyon facts whichEdited by Hans H. Reese, and Mabel G. Masten, M. D. (NeuNolan D. C. Lewis, M. D. (Psychiand Percival Bailey, M. D. (Neuro(Chicago: The Year Book Pub1948.)reproduced. The correspondence between interior life and behavior forms the basis of the scientific approach to the study of personality, for it rests on the terrain of positive fact rather than of philosophic speculation. On the basis of the above orientation the authors present a succinct and effective review of the substance of modern psychology, with special emphasis on comparative and social psychology and the psychology of individual differences. The book