Echo personalities : a short study of the contributions of abnormal psychology towards the solution of some of the problems of normal education / Frank Watts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watts, Frank, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Pathological.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Echo personalities

Place of Publication:

London : George Allen & Unwin, [1918]

Summary:

"This essay was written in the spring of 1917 during such intervals in the writer's life as were relatively free from the pressure of military duties. It is an attempt to estimate the value for educational practice of recent investigations in the province of abnormal psychology, and, as the title-page suggests, it deals chiefly with those forms of human behavior which are but the echoes of authentic personality: the behavior, for example, of the crowd which echoes the ideas and feelings of its leader, of the pathological subject whose whole existence has become, or is tending to become, an echo of some great disintegrating experience of the past, and of the defective whose mentality is so often the meaningless echo of uncomprehended happenings in his environment. The present high level of interest in psychology in the training colleges of England will make this essay very easy reading for those teachers who are eager to continue their studies in educational theory, while the writer dares to hope that the general reader will not find his essay uninteresting. While expressing my thanks to Professor John Adams, Benchard Branford, Esq., Dr. William Brown, and my wife for their much valued stimulation and guidance in my studies, I should like at the same time to ask them to forgive me for associating them with this my pre-daylight grope towards a satisfactory and scientifically based theory of education"-- Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The scope of abnormal psychology

The crowd at school : its control and education

Psychopathology and the development of personality

The psychology of the defective kind : its influence upon teaching methods

The supernormal mind.

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