| Abstract: | "This book has been written in the ever strengthening conviction that psychology is most naturally, consistently, and effectively treated as a study of conscious selves in relation to other selves and to external objects--in a word, to their environment, personal and impersonal. The psychology of self, which this book sets forth, is a conscious adoption and scientific exposition of this natural and practically inevitable conception. This text attempts to embody the important results of so-called functional psychology. The author has taken explicit account of the characteristic bodily reactions on environment which accompany perception, thought, emotion, and will. The author has also briefly considered the various forms of consciousness as factors in conduct, and as significant in individual and in social development"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). |
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