Your Mind and How To Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology

Complete and Unabridged Version. Your Mind And How to Use It. A Manual Of Practical Psychology. It is not enough merely to have a sound mind—one must also learn how to use it, if he would become mentally efficient. Contents. What is the Mind, The Mechanism of Mental States, The Great Nerve Centers, Consciousness, Attention, Perception, Memory, Imagination, The Feelings, The Emotions, The Instinctive Emotions, The Passions, The Social Emotions, The Religious Emotions, The Aesthetic Emotions, The Intellectual Emotions, The Role of the Emotions, The Emotions and Happiness, The Intellect, Conception, Classes of Concepts, Judgments, Primary Laws of Thought, Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Fallacious Reasoning, The Will, Will-Training, Will-Tonic. PSYCHOLOGY is generally considered to be the science of mind, although more properly it is the science of mental states—thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition. It was formerly the custom of writers on the subject of psychology to begin by an attempt to define and describe the nature of mind, before proceeding to a consideration of the subject of the various mental spates and activities. But more recent authorities have rebelled against this demand, and have claimed that it is no more reasonable to hold that psychology should be held to an explanation of the ultimate nature of mind than it is that physical science be held to an explanation of the ultimate nature of matter. The attempt to explain the ultimate nature of either is futile—no actual necessity exists for explanation in either case. Physics may explain the phenomena of matter, and psychology the phenomena of mind, without regard to the ultimate nature of the substance of either.