Publication information: In Defense of the Psychological (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983). The ‘dead matter’ for this book is contained in Box 36 of the Miller Papers. All chapter titles are editorial additions unless specified otherwise.
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Appendix on editorial marks
Preface
Chapter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Chapter 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Preface.
Editorial Mark: J. 4/12/43a (6) Edgerton Howard 10/7/45.
Document Type: Letter to former student Doctor of Psychiatry Edgerton McC. Howard, MD.
Pages: 7-9(¶2).
Date: 7 October 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 20:6.
Editorial Mark: J. 4/12/43a (6) Edgerton 10/18/47.
Document Type: Letter to former student Doctor of Psychiatry Edgerton McC. Howard, MD.
Pages: 9(¶3)-10.
Date: 18 October 1947.
Box & Folder: MP 20:6.
Chapter 1. What is Psychology?
Editorial Mark: J. 10/1/41 (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 11-15.
Date: 1 October 1941.
Box & Folder: MP 11:8.
Chapter 2. Grades of Organic Activity: The Locus of the Abnormal.
Editorial Mark: CAS c. J. 11/1/45.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 16-21.
Date: 1 November 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 12:13 and MP 20:6.
Remarks: Although marked “CAS” both the chart and the remarks following it are found in the folder with Dr. McC. Howard’s letters. Copies of the chart are also located in Mr. Edward A. Hoyt’s contribution to the Miller Papers.
Chapter 3. The Genesis of the Psychological.
Editorial Mark: CAS-K.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 22-26.
Date: December 1971.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Chapter 4. Knowledge and Psychology.
Editorial Mark: C. 3/10/56 (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 27-30.
Date: 10 March 1956.
Box & Folder: MP 14:14.
Chapter 5. The World in Its Occasions.
Editorial Mark: W. Savacool (6) 1/27/57.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of French John Savacool of Williams College.
Pages: 31-34.
Date: 27 January 1957.
Box & Folder: MP 20:5.
Remarks: The editorial mark on the folder is W. 6/13/56 to 8/20/71.
Chapter 6. The Association of Ideas.
Editorial Mark: J. 10/1/41 a (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 35-38.
Date: 1941.
Box & Folder: MP 11:8.
Chapter 7. Instinct.
Editorial Mark: F. am (2).
Document Type: Essay draft.
Pages: 39-40(¶1); section i.
Date: Before 1970.
Box & Folder: MP 7:22.
Editorial Mark: J. K-C 7/3/41 a (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 40(¶2)-41(¶3); section ii.
Date: 3 July 1941.
Box & Folder: MP 11:6.
Editorial Mark: G. 7/19/44 a (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 41(¶4)-43(¶4); section iii.
Date: 1944-45.
Box & Folder: MP 12:8.
Editorial Mark: CAS-A.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 43(¶5)-48(¶2); section iv.
Date: August 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Editorial Mark: Edgerton Howard 10/2/45.
Document Type: Letter to former student Doctor of Psychiatry Edgerton McC. Howard, MD.
Pages: 48(¶3)-49; section v.
Date: 2 October 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 20:6.
Chapter 8. Behavior.
Editorial Mark: J. Behavior C. 1971? (2).
Document Type: Essay draft.
Pages: 50-63.
Date: 1971?
Box & Folder: MP 23:26.
Chapter 9. The Stimulus as Local Control.
Editorial Mark: CAS-I.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 64-74.
Date: November 1971.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Chapter 10. Conditioning is Particular.
Editorial Mark: J. 1960s? (4).
Document Type: Unmailed letter.
Pages: 75-89.
Date: 1960s?
Box & Folder: MP 18:9.
Chapter 11. The Behavioral View of Action.
Editorial Mark: CAS-P.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 90-98.
Date: September-October 1971.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Chapter 12. The Stimulus as Potential.
Editorial Mark: CAS-Q.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 99-105.
Date: None.
Box & Folder: MP 21:1.
Remarks: My estimation of the date is 1971. The item must be misplaced, but should be located in MP 20:7, 21:1, or 21:2.
Chapter 13. Adjustment in Psychiatry.
Editorial Mark: J. K-C 7/3/41 a (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 106-17.
Date: 3 July 1941.
Box & Folder: MP 11:6.
Chapter 14. Purpose.
Editorial Mark: Edgerton Howard 4/25/45.
Document Type: Letter to former student Doctor of Psychiatry Edgerton McC. Howard, MD.
Pages: 118-21(¶2); section i.
Date: 25 April 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 20:6.
Remarks: Folder is marked J. 4/12/43a (6).
Editorial Mark: CAS 4/26/45.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 121(¶3)-25(¶5); section ii.
Date: 26 April 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 21:1.
Remarks: Folder is marked J. 4/12/43a (6).
Editorial Mark: Edgerton Howard 5/28/45.
Document Type: Letter to former student Doctor of Psychiatry Edgerton McC. Howard, MD.
Pages: 125(¶6)-28; section iii.
Date: 28 May 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 20:6.
Remarks: The editorial mark on the folder is J. 4/12/43a (6).
Chapter 15. Libido.
Editorial Mark: J. 9/-/45 a (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 129-30(¶4); section i.
Date: September 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 12:15.
Editorial Mark: Edgerton Howard 4/14/43.
Document Type: Letter to former student Doctor of Psychiatry Edgerton McC. Howard, MD.
Pages: 130(¶5)-33; section ii.
Date: 28 May 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 20:6.
Remarks: Editorial mark on the folder is J. 4/12/43 a (6).
Chapter 16. Madness.
Editorial Mark: CAS-B.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 134-38.
Date: 12 August 1953.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Chapter 17. Management.
Editorial Mark: CAS-J.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 139-43.
Date: 22 September 1971.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Chapter 18. History and Case History.
Editorial Mark: Letter to GPB Sept. 1970.
Document Type: Letter to former student Mr. George P. Brockway.
Pages: 144-51.
Date: September 1970.
Box & Folder: MP 30:5.
Remarks: Also appeared in The American Scholar 49(2) (1987) accompanying Brockway’s essay about Miller as a teacher. The version in In Defense of the Psychological is the longer of the two. In the typescript in MP 30:5 the difference between the two versions is marked by a change in typeface. The text in the original typeface appeared in the journal article of this title. The subsequent text in the different typeface was added to the longer version that appeared in the W. W. Norton volume. This change occurs between paragraphs 3 and 4 on page 149 of In Defense of the Psychological .
Chapter 19. The Portrait of Man.
Editorial Mark: CAS-N.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 152-62.
Date: 29 October 1968.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Chapter 20. Knowing Other Minds.
Editorial Mark: E. 1932 (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 163-72.
Date: 1932.
Box & Folder: MP 9:8.
Chapter 21. A Selection of Paragraphs.
Paragraph 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
i. Adjustment.
Editorial Mark: F. 1/15/49 a (2).
Document Type: Essay draft.
Pages: 173.
Date: 15 January 1949.
Box & Folder: MP 3:16.
ii. Knowing as a Mode of Change.
Editorial Mark: C. 3/10/56 (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 173-74.
Date: 10 March 1956.
Box & Folder: MP 14:14.
iii. Civilization and Its Discontents.
Editorial Mark: Basel 4/25/54.
Document Type:
Pages: 174.
Date: 25 April 1954.
Box & Folder:
Remarks: Possibly a draft of an essay or notes from Miller’s trip to Europe, during which he visited Basel, Switzerland.
iv. Is Abnormality Accidental?
Editorial Mark: J. 8/-/45 b (3).
Document Type: Notes.
Pages: 175.
Date: August 1945.
Box & Folder: MP 12:13.
v. History as Therapy.
Editorial Mark: To Castell [Dear Alburey, I have been under the weather. . .].
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 176.
Date: 1971.
Box & Folder: MP 21:2.
Remarks: My estimation of the date is 1971.
vi. Recognition.
Editorial Mark: CAS 1974 a.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 176.
Date: 1974.
Box & Folder:
vii. Man as Rational Animal.
Editorial Mark: CAS-M.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 177-78.
Date: 1971.
Box & Folder: MP 21:2.
Remarks: The source is not actually marked ‘CAS-M’. It is also not clear that the letter is to Professor Castell as there is no indication of the addressee.
viii. Unwanted Experience.
Editorial Mark: CAS-L.
Document Type: Letter to Professor of Philosophy Alburey Castell of the University of Minnesota.
Pages: 178-79.
Date: 1968.
Box & Folder: MP 20:7.
Remarks: My estimation of the date is 1968.
ix. Past and Present.
Editorial Mark: F. 1960 (2).
Document Type: Essay draft.
Pages: 179-81.
Date: 1960.
Box & Folder: MP 4:25.
x. Preoccupation With the Psychological.
Editorial Mark: J. Meditation on the Psychological a 11/-/71 (2).
Document Type: Essay draft.
Pages: 181-84.
Date: November 1971.
Box & Folder: MP 23:24.
xi. A Psychological Start.
Editorial Mark: None.
Pages: 184.
Date: None.
Box & Folder:
Remarks: The item was added at the galley stage and thus there is no item in the typescript file in the ‘dead matter’ box.
Chapter 22. A Selection of Notes.
i. A Mind is Unique.
Editorial Mark: MHH 2.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 185 (¶1)-( “. . . are generalities.”).
Date: 1930-31
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 42.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 185 (¶1 last sentence).
Date: 1930-31
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Remarks: This and the rest of the chapter is drawn from Hartshorne’s notes which he took as a student in Miller’s psychology class in 1930-31. The editorial marks refer to the pagination of Hartshorne’s notes in MP 22:7.
ii. Memory.
Editorial Mark: MHH 68.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 185(¶2).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 7.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 185(¶3).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 11-12.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 185(¶4)-end.
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
iii. Facts.
Editorial Mark: MHH 13-14.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 186(¶5-8).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 15-16.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 186(¶9).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
iv. Reflex Theory.
Editorial Mark: MHH 15-16.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 187(¶1)-(amidst ¶4 “. . . acquisition.”).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 24.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 187 (amidst ¶4 “One who tells. . .”)-(¶5).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
v. Heredity and Environment.
Editorial Mark: MHH 24-25.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 187(¶6)-188(¶1)
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
vi. Fate and Freedom.
Editorial Mark: MHH 25-26.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 188(¶2)-(¶3).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
vii. The Method of Psychology.
Editorial Mark: MHH 26-29.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 188(¶4)-190(¶2).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 3.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 190(¶3-4).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
viii. Body and Mind.
Editorial Mark: MHH 38.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 190(¶5).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 39.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 190(¶6).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
ix. Purpose.
Editorial Mark: MHH 45.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 190(1st sentence ¶7).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
Editorial Mark: MHH 58-60.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 190(amidst ¶7 “If you invent. . .”)-91(¶9).
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
x. The Universal.
Editorial Mark: MHH 68A-68B.
Document Type: Mr. M. Holmes Hartshorne’s notes.
Pages: 192.
Date: 1930-31.
Box & Folder: MP 22:7.
