1. Introduction
2. Supposed Mental Faculties and their Training
3. The Modern Psychological View of Mental Abilities
4. Desire and Striving, Pleasure, Emotions and Sentiments
5. Are There Human Instincts? The Innate Bases of Conduct and ‘Drives’
6. Sympathy, the Parental Impulse, Fear and Disgust
7. Anger, Pugnacity and Aggressiveness; Self-Assertion and Self-Submission
8. Suggestion, Imitation and Gregariousness
9. Sex and Sex Education
10. The Unconscious, Repression, Sublimation, and Some Freudian Ideas on Sex
11. The Inferiority Complex and Some Other Complexes and Neuroses
12. Temperament and the Co-ordination of Innate Tendencies
13. Sentiments, Volition, Character, and Moral Habits
14. Play, and "The Play-Way" in Education
15. Acquisitive, Collecting, Manipulative, and Constructive or Creative Tendencies
16. Curiosity, Special Interests and the Popularity of School Subjects
17. Mental Work, Interest and Attention
18. The Span and Division of Attention or Apprehension
19. Learning and Remembering
20. Learning Movements and the Acquisition of Skill
21. Thinking, and Training in Reasoning
22. Imagination and Fluency
23. General Intelligence and Intelligence Tests
24. Special Abilities and their Testing
25. Estimating Temperament, Personality or Character
26. Educational Guidance, School Records, and Attainment Tests
27. Vocational Guidance
28. The Appreciation of Beauty and Aesthetic Education (Nature and Visual Art)
29. The Appreciation of Beauty and Aesthetic Education (Music)
30. The Appreciation of Beauty and Aesthetic Education (Poetry)
31. Development in Infancy
32. Middle Childhood and its Interests
33. Adolescence (General, Social and Emotional)
34. Adolescence (Intellectual and Out of School Interests)
35. Backward Children, Problem Children, and Young Delinquents
36. Mind and Body. Appendix: Correlation and Other Common Statistical Terms. Index to Names. Index of Subjects.