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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YOUR MIND
AND HOW TO USE IT
A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL
PSYCHOLOGY
BY
WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON
It is not enough merely to have a sound mind—one must also learn how to use it, if he would become mentally efficient.
PUBLISHED BY
THE ELIZABETH TOWNE CO.,
HOLYOKE, MASS.
L.N. Fowler & Co., London.
Copyright, 1911.
ELIZABETH TOWNE.
Copyrighted in the United States and England.
Contents.
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THE MECHANISM OF MENTAL STATES II. 11 THE GREAT NERVE CENTERS III. 17 CONSCIOUSNESS 24 IV. V. ATTENTION 29 VI. PERCEPTION 36 MEMORY VII. 45 MEMORY (continued) 54 VIII. IMAGINATION IX. 62 Х. 72 THE FEELINGS 79 XI. THE EMOTIONS THE INSTINCTIVE EMOTIONS 88 XII. THE PASSIONS ХПІ. 96 THE SOCIAL EMOTIONS XIV. 104 THE RELIGIOUS EMOTIONS XV. 111 THE ÆSTHETIC EMOTIONS 117 XVI. THE INTELLECTUAL EMOTIONS 125 XVII. THE ROLE OF THE EMOTIONS 131 XVIII. THE EMOTIONS AND HAPPINESS ХГХ. 136 ХХ. 143 THE INTELLECT ХХІ. CONCEPTION 151 CLASSES OF CONCEPTS 158 ХХП. JUDGMENTS ХХПІ. 164 PRIMARY LAWS OF THOUGHT 171 XXIV. REASONING XXV. 176 INDUCTIVE REASONING XXVI. 181 DEDUCTIVE REASONING 186 XXVII. FALLACIOUS REASONING 193 ХХVIII. THE WILL ХХІХ. 201 WILL-TRAINING 213 ХХХ. WILL-TONIC ХХХІ. 219
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