Psychology and Human Behaviour

Contents: Preface. 1. Growth of human changes. 2. Psychology of human mind. 3. Human behaviour and emotions. 4. Role of mental health. 5. Group behaviour and human experimentation. 6. Functional development. 7. Development of maturity and impacts. 8. Behaviour and social interaction. 9. Development of mental process. 10. Process of individuality. Index.

"Many studies of adolescence, psychological, sociological and anthropological, have been made through the years. Adolescence has been studied as a period of development, as a crisis period in the child\'s life and in his interpersonal and social relations, and also as a social problem confronted by each succeeding adult generation. Consequently, an overall "traditional" conception of the nature of adolescence has become quite thoroughly established. The following statement is an attempt to characterize that traditional conception.

As a result of physical growth changes, and changes in physiological functioning the child experiences a complex of psychological accompaniments -- feelings, emotional stirrings, motivating "drives" -- that are completely new and strange to him. He even feels strange to himself as a physical being. He is disturbed by the new quality of his emotions." (jacket)