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the forest of Fontainebleau. They met with academic opposition, and 
their success depended on bourgeois political advances after 1830. Their 
tradition died because other developments of painting attracted good men, 
and because it became a sentimental convention. ‘The relations of members 
were mainly of comradeship, and the principal members were strikingly 
independent. Corot, the leader, held the position by his comradely qualities, 
ability to express the spirit of the times, and outstanding genius. ‘The 
group was an integral system, a framework necessary to the activities of its 
members, and maintained itself by expressing tendencies and fulfilling needs 
of the community. 
Dr. G. G. NetLt Wricut.—The psychological description and classification 
of forms of social maladjustment (2.45). 
A formal analysis of the possible types of social maladjustment may have 
practical value in relation to problems of (a) the socially maladjusted indi- 
vidual, and (b) large scale social and political maladjustments. Such an 
analysis is most readily carried out by examining maladjusted personal 
relations : for it is necessary, and in the case of the relations between two 
persons it is possible, to take into account the relevant mental states and 
structures of both minds and to allow full weight to both points of view. 
Two persons may be said to be maladjusted to one another when their 
common mental frame is so organised as to hinder the normal expression 
and development of their personalities in relation to one another. Such 
hindrance may result from (a) a primary concord with opposition in respect 
of intensity, frequency or duration ; (b) a primary concord with opposition 
of other tendencies, e.g. an appetitive concord with a co-operative opposi- 
tion and vice versa ; (c) a primary concord with oppositions arising out of 
differences of intelligence or relevant knowledge or experience. 
Such obstructed interactions admit of various degrees of adjustment 
through ‘ trial and error’ and other-conscious processes : but such adjust- 
ment may be hindered by (a) the development of anger as a result of instances 
of the original opposition, and (b) the development of ideational structures 
in which the nature of the opposition is misconceived. 
Mr. J. Drever, jun.—Insight and opinion (3.30). 
Controversy has tended to influence the determination of criteria for 
insightful behaviour in such a way that extrinsic features have been unduly 
emphasised. Suddenness is a case in point. Experiments have been 
devised which seem to show that insight need not appear suddenly. The 
earlier stages have not been detected by the Gestalt experimental technique, 
but if they can be demonstrated, a study of them should throw some light 
on the psychological conditions of insight. Opinion and guesswork may 
cover these stages and are thus relevant to the psychology of learning. 
Division 2. 
Dr. R. B. Carrett.—The place of the practising psychologist in the educa- 
tional system (2.45). 
The psychologist, as an integral part of the local education service, is 
a long overdue necessity in modern education. His functions, though 
numerous, cannot yet be delimited, but must be decided by the experience 
and experiment of the next few years. 
