William Walker Atkinson

Your mind and how to use it William Walker Atkinson

William Atkinson's timeless masterpiece "Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology" in the original version, with some additions that to deepen the reading of this cornerstone of psychology: -An in-depth historical and contextual analysis of early 1900s psychology-A detailed biography of the authorMind is defined as "the faculty or power by which creatures, feel, think and will think." This definition is inadequate and circular in nature, but it is inevitable, for mind can be defined only in its own terms and only by reference to its own processes. Perhaps the simplest method of conveying the idea of the existence and nature of the mind is that attributed to a well-known German psychologist who was not willing to start his course by asking his students to think about something, his desk, for example. Then he would say, "Now think about what you think about the desk." And, after a break, he would add, "This thing that thinks about the desk, and you're talking about now, is the topic of our Psychology Study." The professor couldn't have said more if he had been teaching for a month