1920 Wm. McDougall's 'GROUP MIND' 1st Ed.

Description: spkul8tor Store SquareTrade © AP6.0 1920 Wm. McDougall's 'GROUP MIND' 1st Ed. MCDOUGALL, William "THE GROUP MIND; A Sketch of the Principles of Collective Psychology with Some Attempt to Apply them to the Intrepretation of National Life and Character" Cambridge. The University Press. 1920. Octavo. 304 pp. First edition. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt title to spine and top panel. Previous owners name in ink to FFEP. Hinges and gutters sound, text block clean and free of marginalia, tears and soiling. A very nice copy of a generally well revered and referred to text. A scarce copy of the first issue in wholly, fresh and collectible condition. Please view my other auctions and Ebay store for other fine McDougall first editions. From a 1921 critical notice of 'Group Mind' in 1921: "...The Group Mind, its author says, "builds upon" An Introduction to Social Psychology. This at once suggests that he is perfectly satisfied with the foundation laid twelve years ago. So much is this the case that the present book, in spite of the great interest and insight of many of its passages, must strike most readers as adding practically nothing of a fundamental nature. Indeed, the author himself recognises this: "Although my fellow-travellers have not entirely approved my outfit, I have launched out to put it to the test"; and "I cannot hope that my readers will follow me if they have not at their command a similar outfitnamely a similar view of the constitution of human nature. Perhaps the best review of The Group Mind would consist of a thorough criticism of An Introduction to Social Psychology. However, to describe this book by itself: it is divided into three parts, the first concerned with "General Principles of Collective Psy-chology"; the second with "The National Mind and Character"; and the third with "The Development of National Mind and Character." [345] To the whole is attached an Introduction in which McDougall deals with the "province of collective psychology." He there makes his position clear: that social psychology has to do with the reactions of groups as such, and this at once plunges him into the extremely ancient and arid discussion as to whether there is a 'group mind.' Since 'mind' is to McDougall "a system of purposive forces," and it is clear that any group must illustrate a more or less perfect organization of individual tendencies each of which can be regarded as possessing some direction, or goal, it follows that he finds it easy to talk of 'group mind.' And just as in the Social Psychology, he treated individual human behaviour as the result of a conflict, or an integration, of a few root tendencies, so in the present book he considers group reactions as the result of a conflict, or an integration, of the tendencies of the individuals who make up the group..." ____________ William McDougall (22 June 1871 in Chadderton, Lancashire, England - 28 November 1938 Durham, U.S.) was an early twentieth century psychologist who spent the first part of his career in the United Kingdom and the latter part in the United States. He wrote a number of highly influential textbooks, and was particularly important in the development of the theory of instinct and of social psychology in the English-speaking world. He was an opponent of behaviorism and stands somewhat outside the mainstream of the development of Anglo-American psychological thought in the first half of the twentieth century; but his work was very well known and respected among lay people. McDougall was educated at Owens College, Manchester and St John's College, Cambridge. He also studied medicine and physiology in London and Gttingen. After teaching at University College London and Oxford, he was recruited by William James to Harvard University, where he served as a professor of psychology from 1920 to 1927. He then moved to Duke University, where he established the Parapsychology Laboratory under J. B. Rhine, and where he remained until his death. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society. Among his students was Cyril Burt. McDougall's interests and sympathies were broad. He was interested in eugenics, but departed from neo-Darwinian orthodoxy in maintaining the possibility of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, as suggested by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck; he carried out many experiments designed to demonstrate this process. Opposing behaviourism, he argued that behaviour was generally goal-oriented and purposive, an approach he called hormic psychology; however, in the theory of motivation, he defended the idea that individuals are motivated by a significant number of inherited instincts, whose action they may not consciously understand, so they might not always understand their own goals. His ideas on instinct strongly influenced Konrad Lorenz, though Lorenz did not always acknowledge this. McDougall underwent psychoanalysis with C. G. Jung, and was also prepared to study parapsychology; in 1920 he served as president of the Society for Psychical Research, and in the subsequent year of its US counterpart, the American Society for Psychical Research. Because of his interest in eugenics and his unorthodox stance on evolution, McDougall has been adopted as an iconic figure by proponents of a strong influence of inherited traits on behaviour, some of whom are regarded by most mainstream psychologists as scientific racists. While McDougall was certainly an unorthodox figure and always willing to take a minority view, there is no reason to suppose that in the light of modern psychological knowledge and political developments, he would have supported the position taken by these groups. Though he wrote: "...; the few distinguished Negroes, so called, of America - such as Douglass, Booker Washington, Du Bois - have been, I believe, in all cases mulattoes or had some proportion of white blood. We may fairly ascribe the incapacity of the Negro race to form a nation to the lack of men endowed with the qualities of great leaders, even more than to the lower level of average capacity" (McDougall, William., The Group Mind, p.187, Arno Press, 1973; Copyright, 1920 by G.P. Putnam's Sons). McDougall married at the age of 29 ("against my considered principles", he reports in his autobiographical essay, "for I held that a man whose chosen business in life was to develop to the utmost his intellectual powers should not marry before forty, if at all"). He had five children. Selected bibliography An Introduction to Social Psychology (1908-50, reprinted 1973) The Group Mind (1920, reprinted 1973) Physiological Psychology (1920). Outline of Psychology (1923) Body and Mind Outline of Abnormal Psychology Please email any questions. andale andalesell Payment Options: PayPal Shipping Options: Weight based Shipping Charges. 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