Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology — William Walker Atkinson

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

William Walker Atkinson

Essays
Book language: English
123 pages

Your Mind and How to Use It is a practical psychology manual in essay form by William Walker Atkinson. It presents early twentieth-century ideas on mental faculties such as attention, memory, imagination, emotion and will, offering guidance on developing and directing them. Listeners interested in historical self-help and applied psychology will find it a clear introduction to Atkinson's thought.

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Contents

YOUR MIND AND HOW TO USE IT
Contents.
CHAPTER I. What is the Mind?
CHAPTER II. The Mechanism of Mental States.
CHAPTER III. The Great Nerve Centers.
CHAPTER IV. Consciousness.
CHAPTER V. Attention.
CHAPTER VI. Perception.
CHAPTER VII. Memory.
CHAPTER VIII. Memory—Continued.
CHAPTER IX. Imagination.
CHAPTER X. The Feelings.
CHAPTER XI. The Emotions.
CHAPTER XII. The Instinctive Emotions.
CHAPTER XIII. The Passions.
CHAPTER XIV. The Social Emotions.
CHAPTER XV. The Religious Emotions.
CHAPTER XVI. The Aesthetic Emotions.
CHAPTER XVII. The Intellectual Emotions.
CHAPTER XVIII. The Role of the Emotions.
CHAPTER XIX. The Emotions and Happiness.
CHAPTER XX. The Intellect.
CHAPTER XXI. Conception.
CHAPTER XXII. Classes of Concepts.
CHAPTER XXIII. Judgments.
CHAPTER XXIV. Primary Laws of Thought.
CHAPTER XXV. Reasoning.
CHAPTER XXVI. Inductive Reasoning.
CHAPTER XXVII. Deductive Reasoning.
CHAPTER XXVIII. Fallacious Reasoning.

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