Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II THE NEW CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE PSYCHO-CLINICIST1 Scientific psychology is essentially a modern creation. It is only about a half century since the scientific methods of induction and experimentation were systematically applied to the study of mental phenomena. Yet we possess, after this brief half century of labor, not only a fairly complete body of reliable theoretical psychology, but the promising beginnings of a number of applied psychologies. The methods and results of the new psychology have been applied, with gratifying results, during the last decade or two to the study of problems in history, literature, art, anthropology, sociology, economics, business, hygiene, medicine, insanity, feeblemindedness, criminology, law, education and paidology. Its services thus far have been most valuable, perhaps, to education and medicine, and the outlook in these fields justifies the expectation that we shall soon have to christen various new independent sciences, namely, the sciences of experimental pedagogy, experimental psycho-pathology (with psycho-therapy) and clinical psychology (or better still, perhaps, psycho-educational pathology). In the present chapter we shall discuss one of the most promising of the recent applications of psychology, namely, the new psycho-clinical movement, which has won recognition, within a decade, in a number of universities, normal and medical schools, hospitals for the insane, institutions for the feeble-minded and epileptic, reformatories and correctional institutions, immigration stations, juvenile courts and public schools. The discussion will pertain more particularly to the educational aspects of the movement--the psycho-clinical and psycho-educational examination of school children. i...
