Hygiene of nerves & mind in health and disease / August Forel ; translated from the German by Austin Aikins.

  • Auguste Forel
Date:
1907
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Credit: Hygiene of nerves & mind in health and disease / August Forel ; translated from the German by Austin Aikins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is a step between the centripetal process of hearing the bare words on the one hand, and the understand- ing of what is said, on the other; for the latter in- volves the association of the verbal images—[a central process]. This again goes back to real thinking, and there it is connected with the preparation of the answer. Thus in language, or the mutual influences of two minds upon each other by means of symbols of thought, we see in action the whole complicated mechanism of sense-organs, sense-perceptions, thought, will, and movement. We saw above how unreliable our memory is in it- self and how our recollections are constantly twisted. Language, especially written language, serves better than anything else to obviate the unfaithfulness of memory. The very words which we use as symbols help to define and preserve the idea and if this is followed by writing or printing, the bottom is taken out of every later deception, so long as ambiguities of expression do not permit various interpretations. - In this short sketch it is impossible to enter upon deeper psychological problems, and I beg every reader who would like to know more to read the Analysis of the Sensations by C. Mach, and above all Hoffding's Outlines of Psychology.^ ' Both of these books are to be had in English. The former is published by the Open Court Publishing Co., the latter by Macmillan. Amongst English books the most brilliant and interesting is undoubtedly the two- volume Psychologj/ or the Briefer Course by William James, both pub- lished by Henry Holt & Co.—Tr.
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