Unifying Causality and Psychology: Being, Brain, and Behavior

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Brief Book Description and Book Assumptions....Pages 3-21
Overview of Book Parts and Chapter by Chapter Overview....Pages 23-44
Introducing Causality in Psychology....Pages 45-70
Causality in Philosophy; Philosophy in Psychology....Pages 71-91
Models and Systems of Causality of Behavior....Pages 93-119
Statistical Concepts and Networks in Causality....Pages 121-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Brain: The Neuronal Network Revolution....Pages 151-175
Lateralization and Specialization of the Brain....Pages 177-200
The Genetics Revolution....Pages 201-225
Gene × Environment Interaction: The Environmental Revolution....Pages 227-253
Genes and Environments: The Person Revolution....Pages 255-274
Nature and Nurture: Evolution and Complexities....Pages 275-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Differential Susceptibility: Orchids, Dandelions, and the Flowering of Developmental Psychology....Pages 305-330
Early Adversity, Fetal Programming, and Getting Under the Skin....Pages 331-354
Connecting the Social Dots....Pages 355-386
Causal Learning: Understanding the World....Pages 387-415
Developing the Mind, Minding Development....Pages 417-449
Free Will in Behavior: Believing Makes It So....Pages 451-475
An Integrated Model of “Free Will” and New Free Will Questionnaires....Pages 477-510
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
Free Will in Psychotherapy: Helping People Believe....Pages 513-534
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
PTSD: Traumatic Causation....Pages 535-564
DSM-5: Basics and Critics....Pages 565-590
The DSM-5 and the RDoC: Grand Designs and Grander Problems....Pages 591-610
The Disordered DSM-5 Disorders....Pages 611-628
DSM-5: Recommendations....Pages 629-650
Front Matter....Pages 651-651
Causality in Psychological Injury and Law: Basics and Critics....Pages 653-672
Causality in Psychological Injury and Law: Models....Pages 673-697
Stimulus–Organism–Response Model: SORing to New Heights....Pages 699-717
Networked Causal Terms....Pages 719-742
Change Mechanisms....Pages 743-765
Front Matter....Pages 767-767
A Neo-Piagetian/Neo-Eriksonian 25-Step (Sub)Stage Model....Pages 769-784
Further Expansions of the Present Stage Models....Pages 785-805
Generic Change Model....Pages 807-831
Revising Maslow....Pages 833-855
Staging Revolutions and Paradigms....Pages 857-869
New Directions in Psychological Causality....Pages 871-888
Epilogue....Pages 889-929
Back Matter....Pages 931-950