
Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology (Unabridged) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Practical New Thought on mental states, volition, and the phenomena of mindBy William Walker AtkinsonLength6h 3m
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Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology is a lucid early-twentieth-century guide to the powers, operations, and disciplined training of the mind. Written in a direct, didactic style, the book blends popular psychology, self-culture, and New Thought philosophy, treating attention, perception, memory, imagination, will, and habit as faculties that may be consciously strengthened. Its practical tone places it within the era's literature of mental efficiency and moral self-improvement. William Walker Atkinson was a prolific American writer, lawyer, publisher, and influential figure in the New Thought movement, publishing under his own name and several pseudonyms. His interests in mental science, occult philosophy, suggestion, and personal development shaped a body of work devoted to the constructive use of thought. This manual reflects his conviction that self-mastery begins with understanding the laws of mental activity. Readers interested in the historical roots of self-help, practical psychology, and mind-training will find this volume especially rewarding. Though some terminology belongs to its period, its central emphasis on attention, disciplined thought, and purposeful living remains engaging and suggestive.
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- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
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Audiobook details
GenrePsychology
Length6 hrs 3 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 22, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
20CHAPTER XVI. The Æsthetic Emotions
2Introduction
21CHAPTER XVII. The Intellectual Emotions
3Synopsis
22CHAPTER XVIII. The Role of the Emotions
4Historical Context
23CHAPTER XIX. The Emotions and Happiness
5CHAPTER I. What is the Mind?
24CHAPTER XX. The Intellect
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6CHAPTER II. The Mechanism of Mental States
25CHAPTER XXI. Conception
7CHAPTER III. The Great Nerve Centers
26CHAPTER XXII. Classes of Concepts
8CHAPTER IV. Conciousness
27CHAPTER XXIII. Judgments
9CHAPTER V. Attention
28CHAPTER XXIV. Primary Laws of Thoughts
10CHAPTER VI. Perception
29CHAPTER XXV. Reasoning
11CHAPTER VII. Memory
30CHAPTER XXVI. Inductive Reasoning
12CHAPTER VIII. Memory (Continued)
31CHAPTER XXVII. Deductive Reasoning
13CHAPTER IX. Imagination
32CHAPTER XXVIII. Fallacious Reasoning
14CHAPTER X. The Feelings
33CHAPTER XXIX. The Will
15CHAPTER XI. The Emotions
34CHAPTER XXX. Will-Training
16CHAPTER XII. The Instinctive Emotions
35CHAPTER XXXI. Will-Tonic
17CHAPTER XIII. The Passions
36Analysis
18CHAPTER XIV. The Social Emotions
37Reflection
19CHAPTER XV. The Religious Emotions
38Memorable Quotes