Fay, D. W. (1919). Review of The Child's Unconscious Mind. The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education. [Review of the book The Child's Unconscious Mind. The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education. W. Lay]. Psychological Bulletin, 16(6), 207-209.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0063860
Reviews the book The Child's Unconscious Mind. The Relations of Psychoanalysis to Education Wilfred Lay (see record 1919-10236-000). The book is a somewhat mixed-up exposition of the discoveries of psychoanalysis and the author's ideas of how they should be applied to education, and is directed almost entirely to teachers, though there are occasional hints for parents. There are seven chapters: The Unconscious Factor; Interplay of Conscious and Unconscious; The Partial Trends; The Mechanisms; The Aim of Education; Resistance and Transference; and Emotion. The author's very thorough explanation of the influence of the unconscious on a pupil's behavior and how the teacher by a knowledge of its phenomena can better understand and help him, should prove very useful. The book is rather disjointed, and needs considerable boiling down; still, for those ignorant of psychoanalysis, there is so much valuable material in it that teachers and parents will do well to read it. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)