Abstract Reviews the book, Psychologist at Large: An Autobiography and Selected Essays of a Distinguished Psychologist by Edwin G. Boring (see record 1961-35015-000). This book contains much history and much psychology. It also contains other things. Only a few leaders, relatively speaking, will have had a chance to sample the author's style so widely as they can in this book. No one can doubt that he is one of the most effective users of the English language in our profession. Certainly it is a readable and intensely interesting account of a man. A reader who feels that he knows something of the author, but misses in the autobiography some things he considers important, finds himself at a loss. Surely no facts belong in the account unless they are part of author's own view of himself, for that would make them biography rather than autobiography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Abstract Reviews the books, Treatment of Psychiatric Outpatients by Ronald R. Koegler and Norman Q. Brill (see record 1967-07408-000); and Emergency Psychiatry and Brief Therapy by George J. Wayne and Ronald R. Koegler (Eds."(1966). Two-thirds of the pages in this book are devoted to a report of a study carried out at the Neuropsychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic at UCLA. The study evaluated the effects of Compazihe, Miltown, and phenobarbital, as well as placebos, psychotherapy, and no treatment, on Caucasian female patients with personality disorders, psychoneuroses, and other conditions which would ordinarily have been treated by psychotherapy if there had been no limitations on the clinic staff or facilities. The general theme suggested in the title (i.e., treatment of psychiatric outpatients) is not really so general. Furthermore, when the authors in the last one-third of the book do talk in general terms about the outpatient treatment of a variety of diagnostic groups their discussion becomes doctrinaire and arbitrary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Two Hand Coordination Test :: Artifacts (psychological and scientific instruments, apparatus, and other objects from the history of psychology)
Description Test for measuring coordination. Subject rotates a pair of counter-balanced hand cranks, one with each hand, simultaneously or separately.