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Excerpt from An Outline of Psychobiology
This outline is intended to aid those students of psychology who have had no courses in biology covering the morphological and physiological data which are directly contributory to psychology. It is designed to con vey the elementary information which is absolutely necessary, and to Stimu late the student to further reading. Since the time which a psychologist can give to the study of biology is narrowly limited, ' it is essential that strong emphasis should be placed on such details as are of the greatest psychological significance, although this results in a treatment which, from the physiological point of view, is extremely unbalanced.
Heretofore, psychologists who have recognized the value of physiology have confined their attention almost exclusively to neurology. This neur ology has been of little use to the psychologist, except as a terminological scheme in which he could restate his psychological facts and speculations. Of late it has been becoming clear that the pressing need in psycho-physi ology is for the study of muscle and gland, and that only through the study of these tissues in their structural and functional relation to nervous tissue can neurology be made psychologically valuable. It is this point of view which has dominated the preparation of this outline.
I hope that this book, which was prepared primarily for the use of my own classes, may be of service to other psychologists, at least until a more systematic and comprehensive text becomes available. Since it is, at the time of writing, the first book of its kind, it 'is entitled to the credit, and also to the leniency usually extended to pioneers.
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