Principles of mental philosophy, with their applications to the training and discipline of the mind, and the study of its morbid conditions.
"The following treatise is an expansion of the Outline of Psychology contained in the fourth and fifth editions of my "Principles of Human Physiology" (1852 and 1855). In this work I introduce my own psychological views with such illustrations as might lead to the more ready apprehens...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
D. Appleton & Co,
1875.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "The following treatise is an expansion of the Outline of Psychology contained in the fourth and fifth editions of my "Principles of Human Physiology" (1852 and 1855). In this work I introduce my own psychological views with such illustrations as might lead to the more ready apprehensions of the principles I aim to enforce, and of filling up deficiencies as it might seem most desirable to supply. I now send it forth as a contribution to that Science of Human Nature, which has yet (as it seems to me) to be built-up on a much broader basis than any Philosopher has hitherto taken as his foundation. To the character of a System of Psychology, this treatise makes no pretension whatever; being simply designed to supplement existing Systems of Physiology and Metaphysics, by dealing with a group of subjects, which, occupying the border-ground between the two, have been almost entirely neglected in both"--Préface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. In PsycBOOKS. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 737 p.)) : ill., fichiers PDF. |