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...first place, we will define abnormal psychology. Abnormal psychology is a systematized collection of facts, concepts and hypotheses dealing with types of mental processes and behaviour that depart from normal and average forms. It includes a study of such common phenomena as dreams, reveries, slips of the tongue, morbid fears and anxieties, feelings of guilt and inferiority, obsessional ideas and compulsive acts, as well as the less common manifestations of hysteria and the halucinations and delusions of the insane...
...first place, psychopathology needs the university. Up to the present time it has been the handi-work of private practitioners; men prey to the claims of the nervous world. It has now reached a stage when it is ready for companionship with academic psychology. Its concepts need to be exposed to the experimental method and to a rigorous criticism, and for that the men who carry on the work must be able to enjoy the kind of leisure and intellectual fellowship that it is the business of a university to provide. Psychopathology requires contact with all the various attitudes...
...number of psychopathological concepts such as those of dissociation, repression, complex, rationalization, identification, projection and introjection have already found a place as convenient forms of description for otherwise indescribable phenomena. It is the concept of the unconscious however that has raised the most bitter antagonism. To the psychologists who have had a first hand acquaintance with the eccentricities of the mind it has become increasingly clear that a complete description of mental phenomena was impossible without the supposition of processes in every way similar to those subjectively apprehended as psychical occurring outside the field of awareness. This...
...League show that Harvard University is fifth out of six contestants in Class A, in which the Harvard Club leads. In Class B, the University leads a field of ten. In Class C, the University is next after the Freshmen and the Harvard Club, which are tied for first place among 12 entries...
...will play 250 points of 18.2 balk-line and then 15 or 20 points of three cushion billiards. After the match each man will give an exhibition of trick shots. The Union intends to place in the Living Room the stands of the H. A. A. now erected in the Hemenway Gymnasium...