The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes.

Date:
1914
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Credit: The mind at work : a handbook of applied psychology / edited by Geoffrey Rhodes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into a social system, with its institutions, its customs and traditions, its conventions, fashions, fads and crazes, which take hold of him and mould him to their measure through processes of con- scious or unconscious suggestion. At times he revolts, and modifies or creates the system anew, but never to the extent that it creates him. On the other hand, there is a multitude of concrete, psychic, and organic adjustments going on in the realms of industry, of education, and in the rehabilitation of the abnormal and the subnormal. These aim at keeping the world in working order, and at making life as efficient and effective as possible. Such social control is largely a matter of the psychic adjustment of the individual to the concrete demands which life makes upon him. But as valuable as is the psychic adjustment of the abnormal and the subnormal to their social en- vironment, the chief contribution of Psychology to the solution of social problems is doubtless to be found in the aid it gives to making normal processes more efficient.
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