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The Psychological Corporation presented a series of six lectures by a group of psychologists on “Psychology and Its Useful Applications” on Friday evenings at eight-thirty, from January ninth to February thirteenth, at the New York Academy of Medicine, Fifth Avenue at One Hundred and Third Street. The program was as follows:
January Ninth: “The Study and Guidance of Early Mental Growth,” Dr. Arnold Gesell; Dr B. S. Woodworth (Chairman). January Sixteenth: “The Psychological Foundations of Personality and Character,” Dr Mark A. May; Dr E. L. Thorndike (Chairman). January Twenty-third: “Psychology and the Professions: Medicine, Law and Theology,” Dr Walter R. Miles; Dr Frankwood E. Williams (Chairman). January Thirtieth: “Psychology and Industry,” Dr Morris S. Yiteles; Dr W. V. Bingham (Chairman).
February Sixth: “Psychology and Social and Political Problems,” Dr. Floyd H. Allport; Dr Joseph Jastrow (Chairman). February Thirteenth: ‘’ Psychology and Education,’’ Dr A. I. Gates; Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Chairman).
At the biennial convention of the American Association of University Women to be held in Boston, April eighth to eleventh, it is the plan to devote one session to the discussion of “The Clinical Approach to the Study of Childhood and Adolescence.’’ Dr Augusta Bronner, Co-Director of the Judge Baker Foundation, will present a paper on this topic as a basis for leading discussion. Dr Esther Eichards of the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, will be in charge of the summarizing conference. Among the leaders in this field who have been asked to participate are: Dr Marianna Taylor, Clinical Diagnostician of the Judge Baker Foundation; Elizabeth Dexter, Public School Clinic of Newark, New Jersey; Dr Winifred Bichmond, Psychologist, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital; Dr William Healy, Director, Judge Baker Foundation; and Dr Ira Wile, Psychiatrist in Chief, Mt. Sinai Hospital. The American Association of University Women extends to all interested a cordial invitation to attend. The University of Pretoria, South Africa, announces the intention to publish the “South African Journal of Psychology, Education and Sociology.” The journal will contain any kind of scientific paper dealing with psychological problems or the psychological aspects of educational, industrial, medical, sociological problems. South Africa offers opportunities in certain fields of research not found in many other countries, particularly research in the psychology of primitive races. The cooperation of European and American scientists is invited. Papers will be published in the language in which they are written.
The American Orthopsychiatry Association has established an official organ to be known as “The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.” The journal is to be a quarterly and the first number was published in the fall. The Editor is Lawson G. Lowrey, M.D. The Associate Editors are Herman Adler, M.D., Augusta Bronner, Ph.D., Porter E. Lee, Harvey Zorbaugh, Ph.D. The first number contains a report of the Symposium at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Association (1930) on “The Treatment of the Behaviour and Personality Problems in Children,” and it is the plan of the journal to publish regularly papers read at the annual meetings. An Editorial Foreword to the initial number expresses the belief of the Association’s officers that “there is a very real place in American periodical literature for a journal devoting itself entirely to problems of human behavior, and accepting articles from any field which has a contribution to make which will aid in the understanding of such problems.” The subscription price is $6.00 in the Postal Union; $G.50 per year for foreign circulation. Single numbers are $1.50. Communications should be addressed to the Editor, 145 East 57th Street, New York City.
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