Outlines of Psychology: an Elementary Treatise with some Practical Applications

Abstract

THE number of persons who are anxious to study psychology in order to make themselves more efficient as teachers is already large, and is happily increasing very rapidly. This book is designed to introduce them to the study of the subject, and may be warmly recommended to them, but it is worthy of the attention of the professional psychologist also. The special features of the book are the freshness and clearness of the treatment, and the novel arrangement of mental phenomena under the three heads sensitiveness, docility, and initiative. Prof. Royce thus ignores the traditional divisions of the subject, which, though merely survivals from the old and misleading faculty-psychology, have largely determined the mode of treatment of most modern writers. By so doing he is enabled to treat every mental process as a whole having cognitive, conative and affective aspects. Outlines of Psychology: an Elementary Treatise with some Practical Applications. By Josiah Royce, Professor of the History of Philosophy in Harvard University. Pp. xxvii + 392. (New York: the Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1903.) Price 4s. 6d. net.