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THE SALMON COMMITTEE ON PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HYGIENE invites the medical profession and their friends to the fifth series of Thomas William Salmon Memorial Lectures to be given by William Healy, M.D., Director of the Judge Baker Guidance Center, Boston, Massachusetts, on Friday evenings at 8:30, April 9th, 16th, 23rd, 1937, at the New York Academy of Medicine, 2 East 103rd

Street, New York City, the general subject of the lectures to be, PERSONALITY—FOUNDATIONS, DEVELOPMENT AND WIDENING HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS. On April 9th—Foundations of The Personality Structure: Mutual concern of philosophy and science with the nature and functioning of the self and the personality. The two not identical. The fact of continuous identity. From the beginnings of life circular response between individual and environment. Mind-body relationships—brain-structure and personality. Original endowment. The physiological foundations. Personality to be regarded as historical development. Reactive tendencies developed by early experiences. Critique of the many modern personality tests. The modern case study evaluating the total situation. "Biography—the Literature of Personality"—weaknesses. The diverse foundations uncovered in an example of a thoroughly developed study of personality. On April 16th—The Developing and Emerging Personality: Always multiple causation. Cross-section of soma and psyche fails to tell the story. Genetic viewpoint. Heredity. Critique of body-build. The significance of other physical factors. General elements of the environment as part of the story. Situations of and in the family—as these have emotional concomitants; with differences sometimes even for twins. The early training period. The gradually developing parent-child relationship. Personality-intelligence correlations. Special types of personality related to handling of early instinctual drives and pleasure experiences. Accidents and diseases affecting central nervous system. Bioch