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This book gives a historical review of psychological studies made over a period of forty years by P. Gemelli and his pupils at the Catholic University of Milan. The first section deals with the origin and phenomenology of emotions. In the main part of the book Gemelli's experimental contributions to the psychology of perception and language are reported, and a final chapter reviews the application of psychology (selection of pilots and so on).
The method which is followed is a detailed analysis of the functional elements in the process of perception. These are sharply differentiated from the interpreting rôle of the individual, which is described in terms of 'intentionality and goal directed synthetic activity towards perception'. Similarly language and, more particularly speech, here presented as complex psychophysiological activities, were found to be highly dependent on individual, internal as well as external, factors (emotion, sex). Often repeated electroacoustic recording of vocal expression revealed also that pronunciation is considerably adjusted to the significance which words may have in a certain discourse.
The author pays high tribute to the descriptive laboratory-experimental