The psychology book

Philosophical roots : Psychology in the making

The four temperaments of personality / Galen

There is a reasoning soul in this machine / Descartes

Dormez! / Abbé Faria

Concepts become forces when they resist one another / Johann Friedrich Herbart

Be that self which one truly is / Søren Kierkegaard

Personality is composed of nature and nurture / Francis Galton

The laws of hysteria are universal / Jean-Martin Charcot

A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche / Emil Kraepelin

The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life / Wilhelm Wundt

We know the meaning of "consciousness" so long as no one asks us to define it / William James

Adolescence is a new birth / G. Stanley Hall

24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it / Hermann Ebbinghaus

The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity / Alfred Binet

The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains / Pierre Janet

Behaviorism : Responding to our environment

The sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water / Ivan Pavlov

Profitless acts are stamped out / Edward Thorndike

Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything / John B. Watson

That great God-given maze which is our human world / Edward Tolman

Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return / Edwin Guthrie

Nothing is more natural that for the cat to "love" the rat / Zing-Yang Kuo

Learning is just not possible / Karl Lashley

Imprinting cannot be forgotten! / Konrad Lorenz

Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement / B.F. Skinner

Stop imagining the scene and relax / Joseph Wolpe

Psychotherapy : The unconscious determines behavior

The unconscious is the true psychical reality / Sigmund Freud

The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly / Alfred Adler

The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes / Carl Jung

The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life / Melanie Klein

The tyranny of the "shoulds" / Karen Horney

The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility / Anna Freud

Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself / Fritz Perls

It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him / Donald Winnicott

The unconscious is the discourse of the other / Jacques Lacan

Man's main task is to give birth to himself / Erich Fromm

The good life is a process not a state of being / Carl Rogers

What a man can be, he must be / Abraham Maslow

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning / Viktor Frankl

One does not become fully human painlessly / Rollo May

Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences / Albert Ellis

The family is the "factory" where people are made / Virginia Satir

Turn on, tune in, drop out / Timothy Leary

Insight may cause blindness / Paul Watzlawick

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through / R.D. Laing

Our history does not determine our destiny / Boris Cyrulnik

Only good people get depressed / Dorothy Rowe

Fathers are subject to a rule of silence / Guy Corneau

Cognitive psychology : The calculating brain

Instinct is a dynamic pattern / Wolfgang Köhler

Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered / Bluma Zeigarnik

When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited / Donald Hebb

Knowing is a process not a product / Jerome Bruner

A man with conviction is a hard man to change / Leon Festinger

The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 / George Armitage Miller

There's more to the surface than meets the eye / Aaron Beck

We can listen to only one voice at once / Donald Broadbent

Time's arrow is bent into a loop / Endel Tulving

Perception is externally guided hallucination / Roger N. Shepard

We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections / Daniel Kahneman

Events and emotion are stored in memory together / Gordon H. Bower

Emotions are a runaway train / Paul Ekman

Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality / Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Happy people are extremely social / Martin Seligman

What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth / Elizabeth Loftus

The seven sins of memory / Daniel Schacter

One is not one's thoughts / Jon Kabat-Zinn

The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred / Steven Pinker

Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts / Paul Salkovskis

Social psychology : Being in a world of others

You cannot understand a system until you try to change it / Kurt Lewin

How strong is the urge toward social conformity? / Solomon Asch

Life is a dramatically enacted thing / Erving Goffman

The more you see it, the more you like it / Robert Zajonc

Who likes competent women? / Janet Taylor Spence

Flashbulb memories are fired by events of high emotionality / Roger Brown

The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know / Serge Moscovici

We are, by nature, social beings / William Glasser

We believe people get what they deserve / Melvin Lerner

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy / Elliot Aronson

People do what they are told to do / Stanley Milgram

What happens when you put good people in an evil place? / Philip Zimbardo

Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society / Ignacio Martín-Baró

Developmental philosophy : From infant to adult

The goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things / Jean Piaget

We become ourselves through others / Lev Vygotsky

A child is not beholden to any particular parent / Bruno Bettelheim

Anything that grows has a ground plan / Erik Erikson

Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature / John Bowlby

Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important / Harry Harlow

We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing / Franc̦oise Dolto

A sensitive mother creates a secure attachment / Mary Ainsworth

Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? / Kenneth Clark

Girls get better grades than boys / Eleanor E. Maccoby

Most human behavior is learned through modeling / Albert Bandura

Morality develops in six stages / Lawrence Kohlberg

The language organ grows like any other body organ / Noam Chomsky

Autism is an extreme form of the male brain / Simon Baron-Cohen

Psychology of difference : Personality and intelligence

Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick / J.P. Guilford

Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? / Gordon Allport

General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence / Raymond Cattell

There is an association between insanity and genius / Hans J. Eysenck

Three key motivations drive performance / David C. McClelland

Emotion is an essentially unconscious process / Nico Frijda

Behavior without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic / Walter Mischel

We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals / David Rosenhan

The three faces of Eve / Thigpen & Cleckley.

Introduction

Philosophical roots: psychology in the making

Behaviorism: responding to our environment

Psychotherapy: the unconscious determines behavior

Cognitive psychology: the calculating brain

Social psychology: being in a world of others

Developmental philosophy: from infant to adult

Psychology of difference: personality and intelligence.