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Organisation F^ckotegy. Many pa{>e^s in the KBSograph^ Urc filled with follow-up studies of certain courses, examination resltfts, glossary and so on.
Mitra's overview on "Methodology" lacl^s comprehensiveness. ard imagination. On the whole, the Survey reads like a review of literature for a Master's degree dissertation. Indian psychology is adaptology and nothing more, and the ICSSR produces ample evidence toT^ear out this fact.
K G AGRAWAL
1 Shanmugan writes: "The researches in personality arc at present mainly confined
to applying and verifying theories of Rosenweig, Allport, Maslow, Cattell, Eysenck
and McClleland." ICSSR Survey of Research in Psychology, p 267. a Krishnan observes, <<... Indian production of books for postgraduate level in any
branch of psychology is practically nil. British and American books are generally
prescribed../' p 2-3. 1 * Of the 250 doctoral theses in psychology only very few have been listed in this
Survey. 4 An example can be cited : Mitra on page XXI mentions 525 publications in
"Personality" but the actual number is 745. (Sec Indian Psychological Abstracts,
1974, Volume 3). 9 Krishnan writes, "Almost all the psychological tests used by the clincial psychologists
are adaptations of those standardized in UK and USA*\