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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Mental adjustments
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: Wells, Frederic Lyman
    name part: 1884-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1917
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "Under a convergent variety of interests the concept of mental adjustment has assumed a larger significance and new aspects. Dr. Wells undertakes to interpret and organize the material from which insight has resulted. The fundamental biological conception of adapted conduct, as that conforming to and advancing the welfare of the individual and the race, remains. The increasing understanding of the psychical factor changes the view of the mechanisms by which such adaptation is reached in human lives. It is a complicated matter to make individuals happy, the more complicated the individual and the more complicated the circumstances that control, the greater the complexity of adjustment. The science of happiness is the most intricate of human pursuits. It is to this study that Dr. Wells makes a significant contribution. The volume moves toward a definite position in regard to the control and expression of vital trends. Such a position has a direct bearing upon ethics and education and all the regulative systems that distinguish between good and bad, between the more and less desirable. For adjustment implies value, indeed sets the standard of value. Dr. Wells attempts an analysis of the source of such standards, and an appraisal of their worth and fitness for the life that we of today must attain. With the task thus set, his procedure naturally is concerned with orderly unfoldment and presentation of detail. Beginning with the biological relations, he promptly introduces the mental factor, and presents the mind and its products as an instrument of adjustment. The use and waste of the mental trends is his theme. Right thinking is the indispensable requisite of right action. The mind's privilege is at once its power and its danger. The substitution of thoughts for realities takes us back to primitive man and the unschooled habits of his mind, to magic and superstition; it takes us collaterally to the breakdown of mind in the forms of insanity, in which the distinction of…
  note: by Frederic Lyman Wells.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  subject:
    topic: Psychophysiology
  subject:
    topic: Psychophysiology
  classification: BF191 .W4
  classification: 150
  classification: WL 102 W453m 1917
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The conduct of the mind series
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Mental adjustments
    name:
      name part: Wells, Frederic Lyman, 1884-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1917
    identifier: (DLC) 17016338
    identifier: (OCoLC)1097081
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 100810
    record change date: 20260612153315.6
    record identifier: in00003523411
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng