PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22826, 10 March 1936, Page 3

PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY CLUB

On Thursday last the opening social of the Dunedin Practical Psychology Club was held, the subject for the evening being “The Value of Psychology.” The lecturer. Miss Olive Mercer, said that they were living in a changing world, for they were now entering upon a new age. Psychology helped them to adjust themselves to life. Once, if people were failures, they blamed others. Llieir lack of education, or their environment. Psychology taught them to look within themselves for the cause. The aim ot all psychology was to give them a true estimate of themselves, and the analysis of self was a most necessary study, for the common cause of failure was a lack of self-knowledge. One often possessed talents and powers of which one knew nothing. The lecturer then gave a list of questions which they might ask themselves in order to reveal the hidden workings of their minds. She stated that the Bible was full of psychology, and gave several apt illustrations. Job, though a good man, brought upon himself sickness, failure, and loss because, as he confessed, he was in his mind secretly holding fear thoughts of these very things. Jn conclusion, she stated that they must learn to concentrate and make what they desired come true. If they tied themselves to their present limitations they were living outside the gates of Eden. instead of fixing their minds on human limitations, they should fix them on the Divine and become like that which they contemplated.