Childhood Studies and child psychology: Disciplines in dialogue?

The meeting of meditative disciplines and Western psychology: a mutually enriching dialogue.

Meditation is now one of the most enduring, widespread, and researched of all psychotherapeutic methods. However, to date the meeting of the meditative disciplines and Western psychology has been marred by significant misunderstandings and by an assimilative integration in which much of the richness and uniqueness of meditation and its psychologies and philosophies have been overlooked. Also ov...

Child and Educational Psychology

Child and Educational Psychology. Tlie Psychological Bulletin. Vol. Ill, No. 2, Nov. 15, 1907. Edited by M. V. O'Shea. The leading article of this number of the "Psychological Bulletin" is a critical and historical survey of recent work in education and child psychology from the pen of its editor, the Professor of the Science and Art of Education in the University of Wisconsin. Speaking for edu...

Child Psychology

Child Psychology

a great many experimental studies of the infant's behaviour, intellectual and linguistic growth, play and social development. The author's account of the development of meanings, of imagination and of verbal learning, thinking and working, is sound and clear. The description of the development of social behaviour and the discussion of the complexity of conscious motives entering into social sit...

Clinical Psychology and Evolutionary Psychology: Toward a Dialogue

The growth of evolutionary psychology as a theoretical framework for the study of human behavior has been spectacular. However, evolutionary psychology has been largely ignored by clinical psychology. This article is an attempt to encourage greater dialogue between the two. First, some of the major principles of evolutionary psychology are outlined, followed by consideration of some of the crit...