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Publish Date: 1936/11/21
Volume: 107, Issue: 21, Pages: 1748-1748
Abstract
This book which is intended for the beginning student is excellent in many respects As the author states it is intended to give the student a first orientation in the material of the science of psychology As such it fills the purpose better than most books of its kind It is preeminently a textbook in experimental psychology and those chapters which deal with the simpler conscious processes that is the special senses are particularly good However in the first page of the preface the author says Confession must be made that I am an oldfashioned psychologist and unfortunately modern advances in the understanding of psychologic processes are almost entirely ignored in this book Freuds concept of the unconscious mind is dismissed with a short reference on page 35 and seven pages near the end of the book The writer shows an almost complete ignorance of psychoanalytic concepts and of Freuds
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