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With carbon copies of typed letters from Rosenzweig to Allport dated June 28 and July 26, 1938. Allport writes that Rosenzweig's revisions (proposed in his June 28 letter) are entirely satisfactory. They will not appear in the galley proofs but the changes will be made in galley ("at that time" crossed out with "in galley" inserted by hand). Allport goes on to note that the thesis R had asked about is William Huntley's Judgments of Self Based Upon Records of Expressive Behavior. Huntley "checks [Werner] Wolff's findings and extends them but sees no reason to adopts all of Wolff's psychoanalytic explanations. Allport closes by noting that he hopes to attend R's symposium on frustration at Columbia and promises "to sit where I can hear every word if I come." The paper that the correspondence is about was Rosensweig's "A Basis for the Improvement of Personality Tests."Rosenzweig (1907-2004) was from 1948 on Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. At the time of this correspondence he had just been appointed a lecturer at Clark University.
19 lines + heading and salutation. Concerning arrangements for lectures he is to give in Leeds and Bradford.
Cattell writes "Thanks a lot for the reprints. I can't agree with the little girl that you're 'not the sort that makes people better', in view of the effect of your good wine! Sincerely Raymond B Cattell".Born in Staffordshire, England, Cattell went on to become one of the 20th century's leading experimenters and theorists in both the architecture of personality and of ability. At the time of writing he was the G. Stanley Hall Professor of Psychology at Clark University.
Seven line letter thanking Rosenzweig for sending her his critical paper on Terman and Mile's Masculinity-Femininity Test, which she suggests they can discuss when he is New Haven on May 11th. She is sending him an offprint of her summary article on "Sex in Social Psychology," which present a brief view of some of the literature of the M-F field. The article she is referring to is Rosenzweig's "A Basis for the Improvement of Personality Tests," published later in 1938 in the Journal of Social and Abnormal Psychology. It was highly critical of the M-F Test. Rosenzweig was Professor of Psychology at Washington University from 1948.
Engle was a doctoral student at Hopkins when he vanity-published this book, in which he attempts to ground psychology and philosophy on his concept of "Interest," a kind of super-intentionality. Contains discussions of James, Baldwin, Stout, Bradley, Lloyd Morgan, and others.
Hall's first book.
Hall received the first American PhD in psychlogy (1878, Johns Hopkins under William James); founded the 2nd American psychological laboratory at Hopkins in 1883, and another at Clark in 1889; was president and professor of psychology at Clark Univeristy 1889-1920; was the first president and founding member of the American Psychological Association; founded in 187 the American Journal of Psychology, the first American pyschological journal and the first purely psychological journal in English; brought Janet & Ramon y Cajal to lecture at Clark's 10th birthday celebration, and Freud and Jung in 1909 to lecture at Clark's bidecennial celebration; pioneered developmental psychology in the United States (called by Hall "genetic psychology"); published in 1904 the first large-scale study of adolescence and introduced the concept of adolescence as a discreet developmental stage. See Zusne's Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, p. 168 and Noel Sheehy et al's Biographical Dictionary of Psychology, pp. 251-252.
The author was professor of philosophy at Galway.
Vande Kemp #733: "A mild apologetic for Christianity and the validity of the religious instinct." Discusses Freud, Pratt, Leuba, McDougall, and others.
James writes "Dear Hodgson [i.e., Richard Hodgson], I enclose a check for Associateship [in the Society for Psychical Research] from Mrs. (or Miss) Ida M. Finnig of Lambertville, N.J. who wants 'everything to which she is entitled for that sum.' Does that include the last Proceedings? yours W. J." ["W. J." was the signature James used only with familiars].
English physician, chemist, and geologist, Kidd became Reader in Chemistry at Oxford in 1801 and in 1803 was elected the first Aidrichian Professor of Chemistry. He then voluntarily gave lectures on mineralogy and geology, which introduced William Conybeare, William Buckland, Charles Daubeny, and others to geology. Through his efforts the first geological chair (held by Buckland) was established at Oxford. In 1818 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and in 1822 Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. In 1834 he was appointed keeper of the Radcliffe Library and in delivered in the same year the Harveian Oration before the Royal College of Physicians.
11 lines plus heading and closing, signed "Eric". Lenneberg is responding to Brown's invitation to deliver a key-note address (organization not named). Lenneberg declines because he is "over-taxed and over-extended as is, and [it] would be simply insane to add a single further commitment to the rat-race that is already waiting for me. … I was actually honored to be offered the key-note address, and would have like to accept this invitation under more normal circumstances."
OCLC locates only one copy, at Duke. Contains material on the effect of the endocrines and sympathetic nervous system on temperament. Mac-Auliffe, who specialized in the study of temperament, was adjunct director of l'École des Hautes-Études, Mac-Auliffe specialized in the study of temperament and developed a typology based on body-type somewhat similar to Kretschmer's.
An interesting letter responding to a note sent to him by Ms. Dusty Sklar asking about his ideas on impotence. May writes "… I would find it too much of a task to organize my thoughts on impotence. All I can say is it certainly seems to be increasing. This is due, among other things, to the radically upset social millieu [sic] in which we are all living and also to the upset attitudes in which most men find themselves, with respect to women's liberation and to the uncertainty of the identity of men in sexual matters."
The note reads: "Dke Univ // I hope to send you shortly all // 4 parts of my Gestalt Articles // sewn together. // W. McDougall. [not a very legible signature—Rosenzweig has written under it in pencil "Mc Dougall".
- One of the great names in 20th century psychology, McDougall (while still in London) published in 1908 the first book on social psychology so-titled. After a distinguished career in England, he founded the Duke Department of Parapsychology.
- Saul Rosenzweig (1907-2004) later became professor of psychology at Washington University. He made a number of notable contributions to clinical psychology and was also a significant Freud scholar — his 1992 book Freud, Jung, and Hall the King-Maker is the most extensive discussion of Freud's only visit to America, in 1909.
19 lines. Murray thanks Rosenzweig for having contributed to a thirtieth reunion gift. "That the gift would take the form of a portrait was occasion for alarm, since my narcism does not include my phiz. But if the Committee finds an artist of the unconscious—domain of my vanity—and holds to their original decision, I shall comply with as much grace as I can muster." In ink Murray has written below his typed note "Could you send me a copy of your poem?" Attached is a carbon of Rosenzweig's reply, dated Sep 21, 1957, with a carbon copy of his 23-line poem, marked by Rosenzweig in pencil as "Unexpurgated Version // SR // May 23, 1957." The poem is headed "A Toast for 'the Banquet' // Thirtieth Anniversary of the Harvard Psychological Clinic // May 31, 1957 // Entitled 'The Return of the Unrepressed to The Jolly Yard".Director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic, Murray was one of the important American contributors to 20th century psychology. He devised the highly influential TAT test in the mid-1930s, and during World War II worked for the OSS, where he wrote much of the first assessment of Hitler's personality. Professor of Psychology at Washington University from 1948, Rosenzweig was himself a significant contributor to American clinical psychology.
One of the most eminent 20th century American psychologists, Murray (who in the 1920s was a leading figure in the Melville revival) was appointed director of Harvard's Psychological Clinic in 1937—he had originally been hired there as an instructor by its founder, Morton Prince. Murray's reputation was secured by the 1938 publication with collaborators of Explorations in Personality, a book that essentially founded in America the modern psychological study of personality and that described numerous projective techniques, including the Thematic Apperception Test. In 1943 Murray left Harvard for a position in the Army Medical Corps to help with the war effort. He established and directed the Office of Strategic Services, helping to invent the post-World War II espionage universe, as described in his book on the OSS published after the war.
- A preliminary draft of the very first psychological profile ever done, in which Murray correctly predicted Hitler's suicide after the defeat of the German army — quite possibly the only surviving copy. A version dated October 1943 exists and has been made publicly available at Cornell Law School's web site. As reported in the Cornell Daily Sun for April 6th, 2005, "only 30 copies of the report were ever printed, and many of those copies are missing or have been destroyed. Thomas Mills, the international and foreign research attorney at the Law Library in charge of the Donovan collection …, said that he only knows of three or four copies in existence today, including the one in the Donovan collection." The later version is considerably longer and contains both an introductory summary and an opening section, "Hitler the Man: Notes for a Case History," written by W. H. D. Vernon.
- The study was done for the Office of Strategic Services (the "OSS"), the predecessor of the CIA. Until an article about Murray's report appeared on page A18 of the March 31st, 2005 New York Times, few people were aware of the existence of the Murray report — it had been assumed that Walter Langer's well-known study of Hitler, which formed the basis for his best-selling 1972 book The Mind of Adolf Hitler, was the first psychological study of the Nazi dictator. Murray had worked with Langer and his report was ultimately absorbed into Langer's, with knowledge of Murray's earlier effort subsequently forgotten. This preliminary version of the report is largely identical to a section that constitutes about 20% of the October (presumably final) report. There are, however, a few differences: for example, on the first page of the report that we have Murray wrote "Hitler's personality is an extreme example of the counteractive type," which was changed in the October version to "Hitler's personality is an example of …"
Murray writes to ask Rosenzweig for a list of his publications to include in a volume to be published celebrating the Harvard Psychological Clinic's 30th anniversary, which will include a bibliography of books and articles by former graduate students and staff members. Rosenzwzeig was Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis.
Entirely devoted to an a analysis of Dr. [Stanley W.] Jackson's character traits based on his handwriting. Jackson went on to become Professor of Psychiatry at Yale and wrote the standard history of melancholia and depression. Quite a nice letter, given Roback's importance in introducing European graphology and handwriting analysis into the USA.Polish-born and reared in Montreal, Roback got his B.A. from McGill in 1912, M.A. from Harvard in 1913 and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1917. From 1917 on he lived in Cambridge, Mass. Probably because of his Jewishness, Roback never got an important academic position, though he was an instructor in psychology at numerous Boston area universities, including Harvard, M.I.T., and Northeastern. The bulk of his papers are housed at Harvard's Houghton Library, though they are not sure how or when Harvard got them. Despite his lack of a professorship, Roback made numerous significant contributions to clinical psychology, the history of psychology, and the study of Yiddish language and folkore. His 1925 Psychology of Character, which essentially introduced European graphology to an American audience, was widely influential. In the 1920s he published the first book-length bibliographies of both behaviorism and personality/character studies, as well as one of the first book-length studies of behaviorism. His 1942 books on William James and his 1957 Freudiana both contain much important material. His 1952 History of American Psychology was the first book on the subject, while his posthumous 1969 Pictorial History of Psychology and Psychiatry was the first copiously ilustrated history of either field and still contains much valuable information not easily found elsewhere. He corresponded with numerous luminaries. His interesting correspondence with Freud, which began in 1929 after Roback had sent Freud a copy of his just published (by himself, of course) Jewish Influence in Modern Thought was partly reprinted in Freudiana.
6 lines + heading and closing. Sears writes: "I have just seen your two papers on an experimental study of repression (Brit. J. ["Med" scratched out] Psychol., with Miss Mason, and J. Genet. Psychoo.) and would very much appreciate reprints of them if you have some available." Signed "Robert R. Sears". Written at the beginning of both their distinguished careers while Sears was at the University of Illinois.
Extensive review of the Report of the Chicago Conference on Professional Preparation of Clinical Psychologists. Fillmore Sanford had asked Shakow to review it for Contemporary Psychology. The review appears as chapter 16 in Shakow's selected papers, published as Clinical Psychology as Science and Profession. In the brief introduction to the paper Shakow writes, "I accepted this assignment but found that when I was through I had a review much longer than the one originally discussed. I called Sanford, advised him of the situation and of my reluctance to cut the review. He suggested that I send the paper to him and he would see what might be done. Unfortunately, his tragic death occurred at about this time so he never had an opportunity to react to the review. After some time I wrote to Gardner Lindzey who had taken over the editorship … who] indicated that he would publish the review as it stood …" It appeared, retitled as "Troubled Clinical Waters" in the May, 1968, issue (13:225-229).
With an informative 12-page introduction written for the paperback edition, titled "Walden Two Revisited," in which Skinner discusses the origins of the book and its subsequent influence.
Stanley was an early (but not founding) member of the American Psychological Association. So far as we can ascertain, his only other separately appearing publications were An Outline Sketch, Psychology for Beginners, a pamphlet published by Open Court in 1899 that we've never seen, and the 1897 Essays on the Literary Art, also published by Sonnenschein. Some of the chapters (here rewritten) first appeared in Mind, The Monist, Science, Philosophical Review and Psychological Review.
- Contents: On the introspective study of feeling
- On primitive consciousness
- Theories of pleasure-pain
- The relation of feeling to pleasure-pain
- Early differentiation
- Representation and emotion
- Fear as primitive emotion
- The differentiation of fear
- Despair
- Anger
- Surprise, disappointment, emotion of novelty
- Retrospective emotion
- Desire
- Some remarks on attention
- Self feeling
- Induction and emotion
- The æsthetic psychosis
- The psychology of literary style
- Ethical emotion
- The expression of feeling.
A long and significant letter in which Terman is responding to criticisms made by Saul Rosenzweig of Terman's and Catherine Miles's M[asculine]-F[eminine] Test. The critique appeared in Rosenzweig's paper "A Basis for the Improvement of Personality Tests," published in 1938 in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. Terman writes that R's characterization of their approach as "purely statistical" is misleading and that Thurstone would consider their approach "very far from purely statistical." Terman goes on at length to explain that R's quarrel is actuallty with their empirical approach. From Geddes and Thompson on there has been lots of theorizing about sex differences. "My opinion is that most of these speculations are sterile." Based on a review of the existing experimental literature, he and Miles came up with hunches for the construction of the test. Terman goes on to address R's criticisms that the M-F test is not primarily a test of performance and that it can be faked if the subject knows its purpose. "[A]mong the hundreds of subjects whom we have asked to indicate what they think the test is intended to measure, not one has ever given the correct answer." R had praised the Rorschach test as an example for validity and cogency. Terman responds that "so far as its present form is concerned, it has been greatly over-praised by its author and others." Terman agrees that "it would be desirable to have an M-F test the score of which would be less influenced by past reactions than by present reactions." Terman used to share R's prejudice against association tests that allow for only a few given responses, but now things that it makes little difference. R's claim that a large proportion of the items test politeness is true only for a small number of items on the test. They took care to avoid "including certain types of items which would undoubtedly havd yielded enormous sex differences, that is, items which necessarily bring feminine responses from women and masculine responses from men. This was especially true in regard to the information test." Inked in here by hand is "E.g., we avoided asking the meaning of the word 'Kotex'". "In conclusion I have to admit that some of your criticisms are unwarranted altogether and that others are partly warranted but a little unfair."
With a carbon copy of Scheinfeld's May 5 typed response. Women and Men was published by Harcourt, Brace in 1944.Return to Gach Books home page