ABSTRACT
Psychology is one of the newer sciences; therefore the things it will ultimately reveal are not yet as visible as they are in the older sciences. Psychology entered the laboratory with the inheritance from the physical sciences and endeavoured to explore the mind on similar lines. The psychology of the laboratory has embarked upon a somewhat self-contradictory programme, for its aim is to explore the internal by external methods. From the standpoint of an inquiry which endeavours to form an adequate conception of the human being, the important thing about psychiatry is that it has crossed the boundary of normal consciousness, and its crossing has been generally accepted. The innate tendency of the mind is to assume that everything is a detached entity, easily comprehensible by the human intellect. Instinct plays a dominant role in the animal world; and as human beings arose out of that world, instinct played a major role in the formation of the human mind.
