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A Review of Gestalt Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. M. Blackburn
J. M. Blackburn*
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Lecturer in Social Psychology, London School of Economics
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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 86 , Issue 360 , January 1940 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1940 

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