Word: psycho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Something resembling the case system now exists in the departments of Psychology and Social Ethics. In some psychology courses the work contains visits to psycho-pathic clinics, and laboratory work in which various experiments are made; most social ethics courses include visits, to reformatories, almshouses, and other institutions. Students in these courses find most interest in the practical side of their work. In view of this fact, it would seem that an extension of concrete treatment in these fields, and in certain of the social sciences may be a natural and desirable result...
There is in process at the present time one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted in historical writings. Mark Sullivan has once more come forth with a volume which psycho-analyzes in terms of newspaper headlines, once current fads and fancies, forgotten manias, previous eras of the United States. He has written not exactly a history but rather the evolution of a popular mentality. Having begun this peculiar method of examination in "The Turn-Of-A-Century" the first part of that work called in entirely "Our Times", he continues it in the second part, "America Finding Herself...
Obviously Mr. Schmalhausen hits the nail on the head as often as not, but he tries to hit too many nails, to destroy too many windmills. And he should never have recounted his woes in his appendix, a "Psycho-Biography." It savours too much of Gundelfinger, and arouses painful comparisons with Upton Sinclair...
...Psycho-Excuse...
...Napoleon" is in the realistic and intimate vein, it is inexorable in its determination "to examine this man's inner life; to explain his resolves and his refraining, his deeds and his sufferings, his fancies and his calculations, as issuing from the moods of his heart." The result is psycho-analysis at its best and at its worst...