The New Psychology (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

E. W. Scripture

9780484275293: The New Psychology (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484275291 ISBN 13: 9780484275293

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Excerpt from The New Psychology

During the last few years 'a wide interest has been aroused in the growth of a science of mental life which employs methods hitherto peculiar to the physical sciences. The interest has been followed by misconceptions of the most varied character. Some have supposed the new science to concern itself with experiments on thought-transference and clairvoyance others have regarded it as a presumptuous sub-depart ment of the physiology of the senses and the brain and still others have treated it as merely a materialistic 'philosophy in one of its aberrations.

Amid such confusion it is no wonder that people ask: What is the new psychology? Is it brain physiology, or spiritualism, or a new kind of meta physics? And the chemist, geologist, or physicist is also inclined to ask: Is it a science at all?

My aim in this book is to show just what the new psychology is. I have sought to make clear the funda mental ideas of the science, and have not attempted to 'cover the whole field of investigation. Salient points and fundamental methods were chosen rather than a multitude of details.

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