The scientific place and principles of medical psychology : an introductory address : by T. Laycock.

  • Thomas Laycock
Date:
1861
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    a large asylum, will enable you to test their capability of application to the former; while in the wards of the Infirmary you will have cases under daily notice, which will enable you in like manner to apply the principles at the bedside of the sick; and at the close of the session I shall invite you to examinations, which will test your knowledge both of the principles and the practice of medical psycho- logy, in especial relation, however, to mental diseases. [The text-book referred to^ (p. 10) is necessarily encyclopaedic in its character, to meet the present aspects of mental science. It first develops an appropriate Method ; for, without this, neither progress nor a useful arrangement of what is known is possible. It then summarizes the results of Experience, whether attained by common sense or metaphysical inquiries, with a view to the elimination of principles. Proceeding from these as a starting-point, it teaches the fundamental correlations of the physical, vital, and mental forces and laws, under the two heads of Teleology and Biology. These sub- jects occupy the first volume. In the second volume, the principles and laws thus evolved are applied to the development of a scientific psychology in the first place, and then of a mental physiology and organology. In this part of the work all the more recent discoveries in natural history and zoology, in comparative anatomy, in the development, structure, and physiology of the nervous system, and in mental physiology and pathology, find their appropriate place. By this plan the study of the connection of body and mind is placed on the broadest scientific basis ; and the work is made to constitute a systematic summary of our present knowledge of life and organization and thought in their reciprocal relations.] ^ Mind and Brain; or, the Correlations of Consciousness and Organization: with their Applications to Philosophy, Zoology, Physiology, Mental Pathology, and the Practice of Medicine. 2 vols. 8vo. With numerous Illustrations. Suther- land and Knox, Edinburgh; and Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., London. MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.