PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 21667, 12 March 1934, Page 10

PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

‘ What is Psychology?’ opened up a wide field for discussion at the weekly meeting of the Dunedin Practical Psychology Club held last Thursday evening at its rooms in Lake's Restaurant. It was stated that academic psychology formulates and defines principles, and collects and tabulates all kinds of useful information about the thinking processes of man, while practical psychology seeks to educate him so that he will lead a fuller and more useful life, seeks to harmonise his whole being into a complete unity, endeavours to make him realise that he has tremendous powers within him, and helps him that he may develop mid release these powers into manifestation. It has been found that many of the illnesses of adult life are the result of wrong education in childhood, and lately there has arisen a group of psychologists who study the psychology of childhood. Spiritual psychology, on the other hand, teaches a different method of unifying oneself; its discipline is on a higher plane, and helps to build a higher typo of personality than through practical psychology.