The Psychological Journal

Extract

The last number of the Psychological Journal contains an article on the Asylum Journal, dictated by so much liberality of spirit and such entire absence of the petty rivalries which too often influence journalists, that we cannot satisfy our conscience without tendering our thanks to the learned Editor, and assuring him of our appreciation of that generosity which sees a fellow-laborer in the great field of mental science where a less unselfish person would only have recognised an antagonist He says, with perfect truth, that the Association, of which this Journal is the organ, disclaimed from the first any intention of establishing a periodical in rivalry or opposition to his own, and we can assure him that the desire to avoid the appearance of such opposition has even actuated our choice of the form and mode of publication. The establishment of this Journal is but the development of one of the original objects of the Association, expressed in its earliest regulations, namely, the publication of papers written by the members on subjects connected with insanity. The execution of this primary object of the Association was commenced in the year 1843, but was soon discontinued! probably for want of some one to take a lead in its developement.