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Title: Psychology and Social Sanity

Author: Hugo Muensterberg

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PSYCHOLOGY AND
SOCIAL SANITY

BY

HUGO MUeNSTERBERG

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
1914

_Copyright, 1914, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

To
DR. I. ADLER
IN FRIENDSHIP

PREFACE

It has always seemed to me a particular duty of the psychologist from
time to time to leave his laboratory and with his little contribution
to serve the outside interests of the community. Our practical life is
filled with psychological problems which have to be solved somehow,
and if everything is left to commonsense and to unscientific fancies
about the mind, confusion must result, and the psychologist who stands
aloof will be to blame.

Hence I tried in my little book "On the Witness Stand" to discuss for
those interested in law the value of exact psychology for the problems
of the courtroom. In "Psychotherapy" I showed the bearing of a
scientific study of the mind on medicine. In "Psychology and the
Teacher" I outlined its consequences for educational problems. In
"Psychology and Industrial Efficiency" I studied the importance of
exact psychology for commerce and industry. And I continue this series
by the pre