Comparative Psychology of Mental Development

Heinz Werner was a professor of psychology at Clark University, Department of Psychology and Education.

'As psychologists and educators adopt a broader approach that considers the child as a whole, living, feeling person, they will find Heinz Werner's classic work to be of great value.' (William Crain, City College of New York) 'Heinz Werner's seminal work on mental development has provides the kind of generative and rich theoretical framewoerk that contemporary scholars need so much. Vital to anyone who wants to think deeply about developmental psychology.' (Susan L. Engel, Williams College) 'The republication of Comparative Psychology of Mental Development makes available to new generations of developmental scientists and students the creativity, scope, and integrative vision of this master scholar.' (Richard M. Lerner, Tufts University)

• Prologue to the Percheron Press Edition Foreword by Gordon W. Allport Book I: Introduction 1. The Fields, The Problems, and The Methods of Developmental Psychology Book II: Primitive Mental Activities Part One: Sensori-motor, Perceptual, and Affective Organization 2. The Syncretic Charcter of Primitive Organization 3. Diffuse Forms of Sensorimotor and Perceptual Organization Part Two: Primitive Imagery 4. Syncretic and Diffuse Organization in Imagery Part Three: Primitive Notions of Space and Time 5. Primitive Notions of Space 6. Primitive Notions of Time Part Four: Primitive Action 7. The Nature of Syncretic Action; Action as Bound to the Concrete Situation 8. The Diffuse Character of Primitive Action Part Five: Primitive Thought Processes 9. Conception 10. The Primary Structure of Thought 11. The Fundamental Ideas of Magic as an Expression of Primitive Conceptualization Book III: The World and Personality 12. Primitive Worlds and Spheres of Reality 13. Primitive Personality Addenda Bibliography Index