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This volume admittedly is adapted to the intellectual level of the college sophomore and is intended as a basic text for the first course in psychology at college level. The authors, both of whom are nuns teaching at the College of Saint Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota, hope that their book will be permeated with the Thomistic notion of psychology and that it will assist the student in learning of the synthesis of scientific, philosophical and theological knowledge of man.
The book begins with a discussion of the nature and scope and the methods of psychology and carries through with the various problems of learning and human adjustment in various stages of life.
There are various areas in which the psychiatrist would find himself in disagreement, mostly in the descriptions of pathological conditions and it is obvious that the authors are not too familiar with mental diseases. True paranoia is spoken of; involutional melancholia is denoted an organic psychosis; multiple personality is described as an entity, etc. Actually, however, the book is not held out as a treatise on mental disease.
It is probable that this volume would be quite useful for college students, for it is written simply and upon broad lines.