Word: psychologist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...likely to be a permanent addition to the national library. She is one of the major artists of our time, austere, subtle, yet warmblooded. A great lover of shapes and surfaces, she permits herself to handle only a few significant ones and those thoughtfully, accurately. A facile psychologist, she ferrets out the secrets of human action in near-at-home areas of the spiritual plane rather than in those physiological resorts whose vogue seems to increase with their distance from normal life. The Professor's House has been declared "unsubstantial" beside One of Ours and A Lost Lady. Perhaps...
CAPTAINS AND KINGS-André Mauois (translated by Lewis May)-Appleon ($1.50). As one would have guessed, The French psychologist who wrote the first unprejudiced life of Shelley (Ariel*) can conduct a philosophical argument with delicacy, wit and penetration. From his interest in Shelley, one would also have guessed that M. Maurois accepts the latter half of Plato's apothegm: "There are two kinds of causes; one necessary, the other divine," and agrees with Vauvenargues: "Genius depends largely on our passions." The three compact dialogs of the present volume, between a young platonist-aristocrat lieutenant and his old rationalist...
...want to take sides against Dr. Kennedy. After an advanced study of the child at the University of Michigan, it seemed that the weight of opinion was that the child is not a miniature adult. The child may be a rudimentary adult but, from the standpoint of the psychologist, the child undergoes a decided change before it becomes an adult. The adult is not an enlargement of the child, but a development from it, in which new traits may appear and old traits disappear. If the child is merely a miniature, you could predetermine what the adult will...
...Beware of the professional character analyst and the 'applied psychologist,'" he warned in closing. "Interest in character analysis is universal, but unfortunately this interest is not as discriminating as it should be. The public flocks to hear the oracular Hindu and his kind, but these advertising experts usually contribute little or nothing to the capacity of their patrons for understanding people. As a matter of fact, the scientific analysis of personality and character has just begun, and any attempt to commercialize the slight knowledge we have runs the danger of being premature and harmful...
...psychologist will doubtless find a scientific explanation for the recurrence of this old mania; the layman will regret that he too cannot banish telephone rates and trolleys from his mind, shoulder a pick, and let his imagination and actions run riot. The wealth he grubs from the ground will be a small part of that which he gets from his holiday...