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Updated: June 14, 2025
This exposition of purposive psychology, surely the most novel feature of the book, is what interests us most, and we discover with disappointment that though theoretically every conscious state is subject-matter for either type of psychology, i.e. may be either described in its causal relationships or immediately grasped as an act of will, still Professor Munsterberg fills five times as many pages with the usual descriptive psychology as with this newer departure.
Münsterberg has always insisted that in social relations we must always treat everyone as a purposeful, integrated character. Your doctrine, in short, depends on your purpose: a theory by itself is neither moral nor immoral, its value is conditioned by the purpose it serves.
Undoubtedly it is this miracle-loving element in human nature that makes metaphysical healing so much more popular than plain, commonsense Nature Cure. Not long ago Professor Munsterberg investigated the claims of Christian Scientists that they were constantly curing diseases of the organic type.
We willingly conceded the importance of tradition in textbook writing, but would urge upon Professor Munsterberg the impatience with which we await more extended treatment of this topic. A second deviation for a book of this type, if Professor Munsterberg may rightly be said ever to write books typical of anything but his own uniqueness, is the inclusion of a section on social psychology.
So far the Munsterberg school has overlooked it but the canny Parisians have not. They long ago studied out every quirk and wriggle of it, and capitalized it to their own purpose. Liberality! Economy! Frugality! there they are, everywhere blazoned forth Liberality for you, Economy and Frugality for them. Could anything on earth be fairer than that?
The indignation of the sorely disappointed scientist was voiced by the late Professor Hugo Münsterberg, of Harvard, in his Psychology of Life: Thousands and thousands of spirits have appeared; the ghosts of the greatest men have said their say, and yet the substance of it has always been the absurdest silliness.
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