Psychonomic Personeering

نویسنده

  • Lightner Witmer
چکیده

A personal character of surpassing superiority is the engine of human progress. It is an engine of surpassing power making effective the surpassing motives of men, women and children. A personeer is one who projects, creates, controls, directs and perfects this engine of surpassing power. A personeer may he an amateur?anyone, a parent or teacher. The professional personeer may be a priest, a physician, a clinical psychologist or a diagnostic teacher. Psychonomic personcering is the art and science of organizing personal character of surpassing superiority so that men, women and children, operating as individuals or in groups, are able to produce performance that is psychic, i.e. in conformity to wishes, wants or needs, and also nomic, i.e. in conformity to law?the creative law of personal and general progress. The surpassing motivation is an assertion of the power to surpass oneself and others. Men assert surpassing power, often enough unreasonably, but presently justified in the outcome of surpassing venture. Performance matching the surpassing motivation demon-

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دوره 19  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016