MEDICAL STUDENTS.
"MIND ON THE. MIND." (Special to the " Guardian.") DUNEDIN, March 12. Addressing the "freshers" at Otago University, Dr. William Newlands, a member of the Senate, commented on some advice recently offered by a colleague who objected to medical students being taught elementary psychology as being dangerous to thenpeace of 'mind and encouraging unhealthy introspection. "I really think my colleague was confusing' psychology with psychoanalysis, and my advice to students of everv faculty 'would be to take, it possible* as a' cultural subject, this course on 'the mind of the mind, telling you what it is and training it to more perfect working like the muscles of an athlete or the fingers of an artist. "There is intense interest in this science to-day and there is endless drivel spoken and written about it, almost as much as about finance, the term 'psychology' is constantly being dragged in when what is obviously meant is merely an individual's temperament or mental 'make-up.'
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 129, 13 March 1935, Page 7
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