Unifying Causality And Psychology: Being, Brain, And Behavior
by Gerald Young /
2016 / English / PDF
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This magistral treatise approaches the integration of psychology
through the study of the multiple causes of normal and
dysfunctional behavior. Causality is the focal point reviewed
across disciplines. Using diverse models, the book approaches
unifying psychology as an ongoing project that integrates
genetics, experience, evolution, brain, development, change
mechanisms, and so on. The book includes in its integration free
will, epitomized as freedom in being. It pinpoints the role of
the self in causality and the freedom we have in determining our
own behavior. The book deals with disturbed behavior, as well,
and tackles the DSM-5 approach to mental disorder and the
etiology of psychopathology. Young examines all these topics with
a critical eye, and gives many innovative ideas and models that
will stimulate thinking on the topic of psychology and causality
for decades to come. It is truly integrative and original.
This magistral treatise approaches the integration of psychology
through the study of the multiple causes of normal and
dysfunctional behavior. Causality is the focal point reviewed
across disciplines. Using diverse models, the book approaches
unifying psychology as an ongoing project that integrates
genetics, experience, evolution, brain, development, change
mechanisms, and so on. The book includes in its integration free
will, epitomized as freedom in being. It pinpoints the role of
the self in causality and the freedom we have in determining our
own behavior. The book deals with disturbed behavior, as well,
and tackles the DSM-5 approach to mental disorder and the
etiology of psychopathology. Young examines all these topics with
a critical eye, and gives many innovative ideas and models that
will stimulate thinking on the topic of psychology and causality
for decades to come. It is truly integrative and original.
Among the topics covered:
Among the topics covered:
Models and systems of causality of behavior.
Models and systems of causality of behavior.
Nature and nurture: evolution and complexities.
Nature and nurture: evolution and complexities.
Early adversity, fetal programming, and getting under the skin.
Early adversity, fetal programming, and getting under the skin.
Free will in psychotherapy: helping people believe.
Free will in psychotherapy: helping people believe.
Causality in psychological injury and law: basics and critics.
Causality in psychological injury and law: basics and critics.
A Neo-Piagetian/Neo-Eriksonian 25-step (sub)stage model.
A Neo-Piagetian/Neo-Eriksonian 25-step (sub)stage model.
Unifying Causality and Psychology appeals to the disciplines of
psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, philosophy, neuroscience,
genetics, law, the social sciences and humanistic fields, in
general, and other mental health fields. Its level of writing
makes it appropriate for graduate courses, as well as researchers
and practitioners.
Unifying Causality and Psychology appeals to the disciplines of
psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, philosophy, neuroscience,
genetics, law, the social sciences and humanistic fields, in
general, and other mental health fields. Its level of writing
makes it appropriate for graduate courses, as well as researchers
and practitioners.
