Edmund Smith Conklin (April 19, 1884 – October 6, 1942) was an American author and

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. He was born in

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on April 19, 1884. He attended Clark University when G. Stanley Hall was a leading teacher. He graduated in psychology from Springfield College and Clark University. He was a professor and chairman of the department of psychology at Indiana University. He served at various times as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and

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. He wrote books on abnormal psychology,

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and the

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.Psychiatric Quarterly. (1963). Volume 17. Issue 1. pp. 182–185 He died in a hospital in Bloomington, Indiana on October 6, 1942.

Publications

*''Introductory Psychology for Students of Education'' ith Frank Samuel Freeman(1939) *''Three diagnostic Scorings for the

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'' (1937) *''Outline of Abnormal Psychology'' (1936) *''Principles of Adolescent Psychology'' (1935) *''The Scale of Values Method for Studies in Genetic Psychology'' (1923) *''Principles of Abnormal Psychology'' (1927, 1944) *''The Foster-Child Fantasy'' (1920) *''Collegiate Religious Education'' (1909)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Conklin, Edmund Smith 1884 births 1942 deaths 20th-century American psychologists Anomalistic psychology Writers from New Britain, Connecticut Clark University alumni University of Chicago faculty Indiana University faculty Syracuse University faculty