A Biosocial Approach

C. George Boeree, PhD
Psychology Department
Shippensburg University

© Copyright C. George Boeree 2009

1.  Introduction     Science     Methods     Phenomenology     Beware! 2.  Consciousness     Qualities     The senses     Neediness     The I and the me     Perspectives 3.  Perception     The "raw material" of perception     Gestalts     The perception of utility 4.  Interaction     Anticipation     Imagination     Thinking     Person perception     Social interaction     The phenomenal field 5.  Adaptation     Learning     Remembering and forgetting     Constructs     Mental structures     Inferences 6.  Emotions     The surprise family     The fear family     The anger family     The sadness family     The eagerness family     The happiness family     The boredom family 7.  Motivation     Curiosity and play     Social motivation     Habit     The hierarchy and the daimonic     Actualization     Decisions, decisions 8.  Instinct     Carl Jung's collective unconscious     Animal instincts     Sex     Children     Helping     Aggression     Society 9.  Temperaments     Ancient Greeks     Carl Jung     Hans Eysenck     Baby temperaments     The big five     Intelligence     Maleness and femaleness     Autism     Antisociality        Conduct disorder        Borderline personality disorder        Antisocial personality disorder     Conclusions 10.  Society     Constructed realities     Culture     Getting a picture of a culture     Cultural typologies     The band     The tribe     Civilization     The age of the individual 11.  The social unconscious     Conformity     Norms         An example: Attraction         Another example: Personal space         One more example: Time     Roles     Status     Society and our mental health 12.  Self-determination     Gordon Allport     Alfred Adler     Existentialism     Free-will vs determinism 13.  Values     Alfred Adler     Gordon Allport     Abraham Maslow     Carl Rogers     Existential psychology     Viktor Frankl     Values and anticipation     Transcendence of self

14.  Stages     Sigmund Freud       Erik Erikson     Jean Piaget     Family     The infant        The sensorimotor stage        Erikson's first stage     The young child        The toddler        The preschooler        Preoperational stage     The older child        Concrete operations     Adolescence        Peers        Ego identity        Formal operations     Adulthood        Middle age     Late adulthood        Strokes        Alzheimer's 15.  Moral development     Kohlberg's theory     Bronfenbrenner's theory     Perspectives theory        The egocentric perspective        The authoritarian perspective        The objective perspectives        The highest perspectives 16.  Psychological disorders     Sigmund Freud     Carl Jung     Alfred Adler     Karen Horney     Carl Rogers     Existential psychology     Viktor Frankl     Albert Ellis     Buddhist psychology     A biosocial theory        Developmental aspects        Fear of nothing        Authoritarianism        Other forms of neurosis        Psychosis        The peach 17.  Defenses and coping strategies     Sigmund Freud     Alfred Adler     Karen Horney     Erich Fromm     Balance theory     Cognitive dissonance theory     Carl Rogers 18.  Specific disorders     Anxiety disorders        Panic attacks and panic disorders        Agoraphobia        Specific phobias        Social phobia        Generalized anxiety disorder        Post-traumatic stress disorders     Obsessive-compulsive disorder        Similar disorders     Mood disorders        Bipolar disorder     Trance disorders        Somatoform disorders        Dissociative disorders     Psychosis        Schizophrenia        Cultural variation     Alienation        Causes        Consequences        Back to the beginning 19.  Therapy     Sigmund Freud     Alfred Adler     Otto Rank     Carl Rogers     George Kelly     Albert Ellis     Existential therapy     Viktor Frankl     The eightfold path     Biosocial therapy 20.  Conclusion Bibliography