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????The?present?book?is?a?collection?of?originally?independent?articles?which?were?written?at?different?times?and?for?quite?different?occasions.?Hence，the?reader?will?find?some?of?the?fundamental?i-deas?recurring?throughout?the?book.?The?selection?has?been?made?in?order?to?give?a?picture?of?the?fields?thus?far?studied，the?psy-chology?of?the?person?and?of?the?environment，ancl?at?the?same?time?to?inclicate?their?connections?with?the?various?applied?fields，
????especially?child?psychology，?pedagogy，?psychopathology，?charac-terology，and?social?psychology.
????Only?a?few?years?ago?one?could?observe，at?least?among?Ger-man?psychologists，a?quite?pessimistic?mood.?After?the?initial?suc-cesses?of?experimental?psychology?in?its?early?stages，?it?seemed?to?become?clearer?and?clearer?that?it?would?remain?impossible?for?ex-perimental?method?to?press?on?beyond?the?psychology?of?perception?and?memory?to?such?vital?problems?as?those?with?which?psychoanalysis?was?concerned.?Weighty?"philosophical"?and"method-ological"?considerations?seemed?to?make?such?an?undertaking?apriori?impossible.
????especially?child?psychology，?pedagogy，?psychopathology，?charac-terology，and?social?psychology.
????Only?a?few?years?ago?one?could?observe，at?least?among?Ger-man?psychologists，a?quite?pessimistic?mood.?After?the?initial?suc-cesses?of?experimental?psychology?in?its?early?stages，?it?seemed?to?become?clearer?and?clearer?that?it?would?remain?impossible?for?ex-perimental?method?to?press?on?beyond?the?psychology?of?perception?and?memory?to?such?vital?problems?as?those?with?which?psychoanalysis?was?concerned.?Weighty?"philosophical"?and"method-ological"?considerations?seemed?to?make?such?an?undertaking?apriori?impossible.