Year: 1958
Type: book-review
Abstract: This book exhibits a tremendous effort in research.In the 650 pages, the author includes 77 pages of references.The author index accounts for nine pages.The subject matter is well indexed in 29 more pages.Reading is heavy and laborious for the chapters abound in 50-or-more word sentences and the author delights in filling these sentences with six-syllable words.The author states that the book is intended as an advanced text for graduate students in psychology and education but might be used for mature undergraduates adequately prepared in psychology.He also intends it as a reference work for pediatricians, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.Unless the pediatrician were well grounded in the language of the psychologist he would find himself lost in most of the chapters.He would long for brevity and simplicity of ex-
Source: The Medical Journal of Australia
Author: Bloomfield, Arthur L.
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2299089461