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"This volume is the expression of the personal affection and scientific appreciation of Lightner Witmer. Written by a group of his former students, colleagues, and friends, it gives voice to the gratitude of all whom he has served in the founding and motivating of Clinical Psychology. Not the least of these are the many men, women, and children who have been aided in the development and adjustment of individual personality by the humanitarian efforts of this new branch of the modern science of Psychology. The papers written by invitation of the editor are the product of twenty-five of the former students of Lightner Witmer in the Department of Psychology and the Psychological Clinic. The authors, each of whom holds some position of responsibility, are recognized workers and authorities in the fields in which they have contributed. They are but representative of the many members of the new profession who owe their original instruction and inspiration to Witmer. In each and every field of activity to which any and all of the writers have applied the foundations of clinical psychology their success testifies to the original direction of Witmer's concepts, the great freedom of effort allowed them in research, continued advice and encouragement, with not infrequent contributions of new and leading ideas"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

Child psychology. --- Child development.

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Child psychology. --- Child behavior.

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"This book is a social psychology in the Galilean tradition. Our contention is that the conditions under which human behavior occurs are primarily meanings, for the most part common meanings. In this sense we may think of this book as a logic of symbolic interaction. Some twenty years ago signs of a new trend began to appear, and it is our belief that this book is a product of that trend. The new trend showed increasing emphasis on social interaction, on analysis of dynamic processes, as against the more static attributes or entities. The new trend seemed to portend a movement toward synthesis and the emergence of an integrated system for social psychology, a system competent to describe and analyze in the same vocabularies the phenomena of both individual and group in terms of intrapersonal and interpersonal behavior. This book is presented as a beginning in that direction; it is an attempt to synthesize in a systematic heuristic form some of the more advanced contemporary thinking about human behavior in the fields of social psychology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychiatry, and semantics. The book purports to be an integrated conceptual formulation for social psychology in a form which synthesizes the situational or field approach with the symbolic interactionist approach. The viewpoint is therefore field-centric rather than organocentric or envirocentric. It is a descriptive analysis of how man perceives, makes judgments and choices, thinks, and otherwise behaves and comes to behave, as a social being; it is a study of 'the person in the body'." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Child psychology. --- Child psychology

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"This book has two purposes: first, to pack into the smallest possible compass a compendium of information about childhood, and, second, to give parents the most practical answers to the thousand-and-one problems of bringing up children. It is a dictionary of child life and an encyclopedia of child training. Part One consists of Outlines of Child Life, a summary of the best that is known about childhood, condensed from the best authorities. These summaries are presented partly in the form of graphic charts and partly in terse statements, often numbered for ease in remembering. Each summary closes with a special list of books for further reading. Part Two opens with a Chart of Parenthood. It consists mainly of several hundred answers to the questions that parents most frequently ask as they meet their daily problems in the home. For those who will go more thoroughly into their work, the best books for parents are listed and described, the organizations that help the homes are named and defined, and parents who wish to study together are shown how to organize and what to study. There are abundant cross-references between the two parts of the book. The main captions stand out in clear black type, the answers for parents are arranged in alphabetical order, and the unusually full index brings to light all the treasures of the volume. The volume is intended of course for reference rather than for consecutive reading. For this it is hoped that it may find a helpful place in the daily life of thousands of American homes".

Child psychology. --- Child development.

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In the flood of recent books on the newer and popular aspects of analytical psychology, the opinion is unanimously expressed, that most of the nervous and mental disorders of adult life can be traced back to some error in the management of the very early years of childhood. In view of this consensus of opinion, it has been disappointing to find so little in the way of concrete suggestions to parents, in these books written avowedly for the laity, either as to what they should do, or what they should avoid doing. It has not been possible to find a book to recommend to inquiring fathers and mothers, in a practice devoted exclusively to children and their problems in health and in disease, which would do two simple things: first, give in clear, understandable terms an explanation of the cardinal principles of the newer psychology; and then, apply these principles in such a manner as would enable parents the better to understand their own children. This book has been written to supply such a need. If it makes the task of parenthood easier, it will have justified its existence. If not, it will have failed, no matter how readable an exposition of the principles of the newer psychology it may present.

Child psychology. --- Child rearing.