Causality and Neo-Stages in Development: Toward Unifying Psychology

Preface
	Causality
	Stages
	Causality Again
	Broad Scope
	Unification
	Theories
	Exceptionalism
	Innovation
	Research
	Practice
	Literature Reviews
	Overall
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Overview
	Chapter Summaries
	Philosophy and Science
	Conclusions
		Book Summary
		Market
		Other Books
	References
Chapter 2: Development, Stages, and Causality
	The Neo-Piagetian/Neo-Eriksonian Model
		Piaget
		Erikson
		Self
	Innovations
		Stages and Substages
		Diverse
		Social-Emotional
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Development, Brain, and Causality
	Causality
	Systems
	Activation-Inhibition Coordination.
	Networks
	Activation-Inhibition Coordination
	Biopsychosocial
	Evolution
	Human Exceptionalism
	Epigenesis
	Gene Interactions
	Environment
	Activation-Inhibition Coordination Again
	Laterality
		Introduction
		Development
		Causality
		Evolution
		Brain
		Modeling
		Free Will
		The Causality Pinnacle
		Intraaction
		Integrated Cross-networks
		System Networks
		S-O(BAMP)-R
		Etiology
	Conclusion (for Chaps. 2 and 3)
	References
Chapter 4: Elaborating the Integrated (Sub)stage Model
	Neo-Piagetian Development
	Neo-Eriksonian Development
	Yoking
	Patients
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Elaborating Causality in the Unified Model
	Networking
		Emergent Circular Causality
	Staging
		Mechanism
		Change
	Attracting
	Therapy
		Science Modeling
	Conclusion (to Chaps. 4 and 5)
	References
Chapter 6: Literature Review 2019
	Philosophy
	Causality
	Unification
	Developmental Causality
	Handedness
	Brain Lateralization
	Networks
		Cognitive Networks
	Activation-Inhibition Coordination
		Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
		Piaget
		Commons
		Erikson
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Extensions and Innovations
	A Novel Application to Couples and Couple Therapy
		Couple Work
		Activation-Inhibition Coordination
		Networks
		Systems
		Levels
		Attractors
		Therapy
		Stages
		Higher-Order Versus Lower-Order Cognitive Generalization in Stage Transitioning
		Revising Neo-Piagetian Mechanism Models
		Networks and Systems in Resilience
		Continuing Innovation: Psychological Energetics
		Fractalization
		Attractor Landscapes as Fractalization Expressions
		Supplement
	Conclusion
		Conclusions (to Chaps. 6 and 7)
		Interim Commentary
	References
Chapter 8: Literature Review 2020
	Unification and Causality
		Unification and Mechanism
		Unification Fields
		Conclusion
	Development
		Piagetian Research
		Eriksonian Research
		Causal Learning
		Developmental Dynamics
		Revising Executive Function
		Lateralization in Development
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 9: Further Extensions and Innovations
	The Science Formula: The Nature of Science and Why It Matters
	Extension of Couple Work (Couple Therapy) According to the Neo-Eriksonian 25-Step Model
	Executive Function as a Critical Causal Mechanism in Behavior
	Template for Stress Dysregulation Disorder
	Inner Peace
	Evolution of Larger Entities Based on the Five Step Change Model
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 10: Adaptation, Coping, Stress, and Development
	Model Building
		Premises
		Adaptation, Coping, Defensivity/Offensivity
	Interim Discussion
	Neo-Eriksonian Development
		The Model
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Broadening Defense Mechanisms: Literature Review and Discussion
	Literature Review
		Adaptation and Coping
			Bayesian Brain/Predictive Processing
				General
				Clinical
			Stress, Coping, Adaptation
				Stress
				Disorders/Symptoms
				Theory
			Fight/Flight/Freeze
			Alexithymia and Suppression
				Alexithymia
				Suppression
		Defense Mechanisms
			General Considerations
			Developmental Considerations
			Adult Considerations
			Interim Comment
	Discussion
		Summary
			Adaptation/Coping
			Defensivity/Defense Mechanisms
		Theoretical Integration
			Theory
			Reconfiguring and Redefining Defense Mechanisms
			Defense Function Hierarchy
			Reconfiguring and Redefining Coping Mechanisms
		Future Research
			Address Limitations
			Adaptation/Coping
			Development
			Coping
			Defense Mechanisms
		Overall Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: Evolution, Development, Culture, and Human Exceptionalism
	Introduction
		Scope
		Definitions of Culture
	A Model of Developmental and Evolutionary Steps
		Steps in the Evolution of Mind
		A 25-Step Model of Human Development
			Five Substages
			25 Steps
			Causal Co-cognition
		A Five-Step Model of Future Human Development
	A 30-Step Model of Development and Cultural Evolution
		The Model
		Human Exceptionalism
	Literature Review
		The Modern Mind and Its Exceptionalism
			Introduction
			Causal Cognition
			Social Cognition and Sociality
			Biology and Brain
		Nonhuman Primates
		Interim Conclusion
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 13: Applying Transemics to Development, Culture, Causality, and Unifying Psychology
	Detailing Transemic
		General
		Poetics and the Profane
		Mechanisms
		Interim Summary
	Recent Research Supportive of the General Themes of the Book
		Steps of Change
		Other Themes
	Transemics in Action
		Five Steps
		Hypothetical Examples of Transemic Growth
		Interim Summary
	Transemically Redefining Causality, Development, and Unifying Psychology
		Causality
		Unification
		Development
		Other Transemic Perspectives on the Young Books
	Interim Summary
	Literature Review
		Introduction
		Indigenous Psychologies
		Indigenous Psychologies Eloquence
		Related Approaches
		Interim Summary
	Discussion
	References
Chapter 14: Ethics and Conclusions
	Ethical Work
	Children’s and Youth’s Rights
		Preamble
		Premises
		Informing of Children and Youth Their Rights
	Supportive Literature Review
	Conclusions
		Chapter Summary
		Summary of the Present Book
		Unification
		Transemic
			Origins
	References
Index