Clinical and experimental studies in personality / by Morton Prince.

  • Morton Prince
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[1929]
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Credit: Clinical and experimental studies in personality / by Morton Prince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE AND HISTORICAL RETROSPECT For several years I have been urged by a number of my col- leagues to collect in published form selected papers from my writings and lectures on abnormal psychology and allied sub- jects that have been printed in medical and psychological journals during the last forty years. I have not felt inclined to yield to these sympathetic requests until this moment. What finally decided me to do so has been the recent publication of Prof. W. S. Taylor’s little volume (Morton Prince and Ab- normal Psychology) in which he has done me the honor of giving an exposition of my theories and a critical digest of my studies. As Professor Taylor's book is based upon my published papers, and makes constant reference to them, I have thought it would be advisable, in accordance with the requests I have received, to collect in an easily accessible and permanent form at least the more basic of them, the original papers, as well as a few unpublished lectures. I have particularly in mind the possible needs of those students, the newer generation, who may wish to re-examine the theories of the different modern schools” of abnormal and dynamic psychology and study, as Professor Taylor has done, the findings obtained by methods which, I fancy, have been more or less peculiar to my own investigations. This thought has been reinforced by the fact that many of these papers were published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology when it was pioneer in its field, and before it had attracted, in any marked degree, the attention of psychological or medical circles. Some were also published in medical journals where, for the most part, they have lain buried, hardly accessible to students of psychology. Quite a number of papers have been omitted from the present collection in order to keep the volume
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