This is Volume XVI of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. First published in 1932 this study explores the fact that consciousness is not merely an accidental by-product of human life but rather constitutes the chief goal of living.
Introduction, WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON; foreword The Psychology of Consciousness; Chapter 1 Religion, Psychoanalysis, Pan-Psychism; Chapter 2 Behaviorism and Its Opponents 1Part s of the next two sections consist of excerpts, slightly modified, from a thesis entitled “ An Experimental Study of the Psychonic Theory of Consciousness ”, presented by the author to the Faculty of Pure Science in Columbia University in 1928, in Part ial fulfilment of the requirements of that Faculty for the degree of Master of Arts.; Chapter 3 Integrative Psychology, or the System of Unit Response; Chapter 4 The Psychonic Theory of Consciousness; Chapter 5 Inadequacies of the Older and More Recent Positions; Chapter 6 Consciousness as a State; Chapter 7 Attempts and Failures; Chapter 8 The Nature of Consciousness; Chapter 9 A Psychological Technique for Psychological Science 1For the suggestion of the standpoint from which the second Part of this book is written, the author acknowledges his profound obligation to M. Gurdjieff of the Gurdjieff Institute, although only the present section, dealing with a new technique, is an attempted reformulation of a Part of his theory, according to the understanding (or more probably the misunderstanding) of the writer.; Chapter 10 The Legitimacy of the Self-Observational Technique; Chapter 11 Provisional Conclusions;
