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Psychology : an illustrated history of the mind from hypnotism to brain scans
Title:
Psychology : an illustrated history of the mind from hypnotism to brain scans
Author:
Jackson, Tom, 1972- author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Shelter Harbor Press, [2018]

©2018
Physical Description:
144 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm .
Language:
English
Contents:
Where am I? Finding the self -- Four humors of Hippocrates -- Plato's three souls -- The dark ages -- Islam and the mind -- Common sense -- One body, one soul -- Exorcism -- Psichiologia -- Descartes' thinking machine -- Mapping the brain -- The nature of knowledge -- Ideas and real things -- Mesmerism -- Phrenology -- Weber-Fechner law -- Choosing yourself -- Phineas Gage -- Mood disorders -- Charles Darwin on emotions -- Nature and nurture -- Hysteria -- Psychology begins -- The James-Lange theory of emotion -- Cerebral dominance -- Psychoanalysis -- Principles of psychology -- Autonomic nervous system -- Bipolar disorder -- Dissociation -- Adolescence -- Conditioning Pavlov's dogs -- Schizophrenia -- Jung's archetypes -- Inferiority complex -- Psychodrama -- IQ -- Mentality of apes -- The Gestalt movement -- Little Albert study -- Rorschach test -- Developmental psychology -- Imprinting -- Stroop effect -- Field theory of psychology -- Autism -- Constitutional psychology -- Learning prejudice -- Nonproductive personality -- Psychology of intelligence -- Radical behaviorism -- Cognitive behavioral therapy -- Eight stages of life -- Person-centered therapy -- Peer pressure and conformism -- Multiple personality disorder -- Nerve signals -- Need theory -- Hierarchy of needs -- Language acquisition -- Working memory -- Developing morals -- Cognitive dissonance -- The attention filter -- Antipsychiatry -- Modeling behavior -- Turn on, tune in, drop out -- Foucault on humans -- The memory trace -- Depression tests -- Opposing emotions -- Attachment theory -- Stanford experiment -- Family therapy -- Memory map -- Thud experiment: Who is sane? -- Heuristics -- The problem of genius -- When memory lets us down -- Identity -- Compulsions and obsessions -- Sense data -- Self-affirmation -- Why advertising works -- Flow=happiness -- Mindfulness -- Functional MRI -- The six basic emotions -- Parapsychology -- The Bell curve -- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- False memories -- Hard problems of consciousness -- Mirror neurons -- Social harmony -- Ambiguity aversion -- Does psychology explain inequality? -- Gender dysphoria -- BRAIN initiative -- Reproducibility crisis.
ISBN:
9781627951203
Format :
Book