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A Project in Community Life in the Kindergarten

A project of great interest to the children of the kindergarten of the University Elementary School was one developed during the winter which they called Our City. During the autumn quarter the children had engaged in housekeeping plays and had built and equipped a grocery and a toy store. As a result they had acquired a background of interesting experiences connected with home and community life. The project suggested by children.-One morning early in January, the teacher had all of the building blocks within easy access and said to the children, What would you like to build with the blocks today? One child answered immediately, Let's build a town. Although the teacher had intended at some time to lead the children to such a project, she had not expected to introduce it so soon. As the psychological moment seemed to have arrived, however, the children were encouraged to begin at once. Preliminary discussion and free experimentation.-There was first a discussion as to what buildings a town should include, and a list of those suggested was written upon the blackboard. This list was later printed upon a chart. The following buildings were mentioned the first day: (i) station, (2) state bank, (3) Congress Hotel, (4) church, (5) grocery store, (6) toy-store, (7) houses, and (8) garage. Each child began to work upon the building of his choice, selecting his own place in the room for its construction. He also chose the blocks he thought were best suited to the requirements of his particular building. Organization follows free experimentation.-The next day the children were eager to work upon their buildings. One little girl said, I am going to build my church across the street from Barbara's house. Another child said, I am going to move my garage

The Psychological Moment in Physical Training

The Psychological Moment in Physical Training

Editorial: Better Speech Week. Is This a Psychological Moment?

Editorial: Better Speech Week. Is This a Psychological Moment?

Food Conservation by Reduction of Rations

IT is perhaps remarkable that, with all the current discussion regarding food conservation, so little emphasis has been laid upon the possibility. of conserving food by reducing the diet. When one recalls the agitation of enthusiasts for reduced diets during the past thirty years, and recognises the fact that all special pet theories can at this psychological moment obtain a better hearing than at any previous time, it is surprising that the advocates of reduced diet have made so little progress, and, indeed, have apparently ceased their propaganda.

The Freudian Methods Applied to Anger

The exact sciences consist of a body of truth which all accept, and to which all experts strive to contribute. Philosophy, however, like religion, has always been broken into sects, schools or parties, and the body of truth which all accept in these fields is relatively far less, and the antagonistic views far greater. Normal psychology, which a few decades ago started out to be scientific with the good old ideal of a body of truth semper ubique et ad omnibus, is already splitting into introspectionistic, behavioristic, genetic, philosophical and other groups, while in the new Freudian movement, Adler and Jung are becoming sectaries, the former drawing upon himself the most impolitic and almost vituperative condemnation of the father of psychoanalysis. With this latter schism we are not here concerned, but we are deeply concerned with the more general relations between the psychologists of the normal and those of the abnormal. With a very few negligible exceptions psychoanalysis has never had a place on the program of our American Psychological Association, and the normal has had little representation in your meetings and publications. This I deem unfortunate for both, for unsatisfactory as this sadly needed rapprochement is on the continent, it is far more so here. That the normalists in this country so persistently ignore the unique opportunity to extend their purview into the psychopathological domain at the unique psychological moment that the development of Freudianism has offered, is to me a matter of sad disappointment and almost depression. In reading a plea for Freud in our association of normalists, I am a vox clamantis in deserto and can evoke no response, and even the incursions of psychoanalysis into the domain of biography, myth, religion and dreams, have not evoked a single attempt at appreciation or criticism worthy of mention by any American psychologist of the normal. I have sought in various

"Psychological moment"

Journal Article "Psychological moment" Get access St. Swithin St. Swithin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s11-I, Issue 21, 21 May 1910, Page 416, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s11-I.21.416c Published: 21 May 1910

"Psychological Moment"

Journal Article "Psychological Moment" Get access G. W. E. R. G. W. E. R. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s10-XI, Issue 262, 2 January 1909, Page 13, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s10-XI.262.13a Published: 02 January 1909

"Psychological Moment."

"Psychological Moment." Get access J. A. H. Murray J. A. H. Murray Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s10-X, Issue 260, 19 December 1908, Page 488, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s10-X.260.488a Published: 19 December 1908