Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Your Mind and How to Use It, by William Walker Atkinson
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A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON
It is not enough merely to have a sound mind—one must also learn how to use it, if he would become mentally efficient.
PUBLISHED BY
THE ELIZABETH TOWNE CO.,
HOLYOKE, MASS.
L.N. Fowler & Co., London.
Copyright, 1911. ELIZABETH TOWNE.
Copyrighted in the United States and England.
William Walker Atkinson
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Contents.
Mind Defined.
"Think About That Which Thinks."
The Nerves.
The Sense of Touch.
The Sense of Sight.
The Sense of Hearing.
The Sense of Smell.
The Sense of Taste.
The Spinal Cord.
The Ganglia or "Tiny Brains."
Reflex Action.
The Three Brains.
The Cortex.
Subconscious Planes.
Training the Attention.
Developing Perception.
Retention.
Visualization in Memory.
Perception in Memory.
Understanding and Memory.
The Law of Association.
Association in Memory.
Repetition in Memory.
General Rules of Memory.
Final Advice.
Developing the Imagination.
Imagination and Ideals.
The Instinctive Emotions.
Blended Emotions.
Concepts.
Perception.
Memory.
Abstraction.
Comparison.
Classification or Generalization.
Imperfect Concepts.
Fallacious Application.
Immediate Reasoning.
Reasoning by Analogy.
Higher Forms of Reasoning.
Cultivation of Reasoning Faculties.
Fallacies.
General Rule of Inference.
Sophistical Arguments.
Fallacies of Prejudice.
(1). Desire.
(2). Deliberation.
(3). Action.
Types of Will.
Training the Will.
Habits.
Words of the Wise.
