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Index
Preface to the First Edition by Dr. A. A. Brill (1947)
Foreword to the Third Edition
Foreword to the Second Edition
Author’s Foreword
Part One: Normal Development
1: What People Have to Work With
1: Can people be judged by their appearance?
2: Where does human energy come from?
3: What is the brain for?
4: Why people act and feel the way they do
5: How emotions change experience
6: How people differ from one another
Footnotes for Philosophers
2: What People Are Trying to Do
1: What is a human being?
2: What human beings are looking for
3: Which urges are the most powerful?
4: The problem of a human being
5: How do human beings express their urges?
6: How do people handle their surroundings?
7: How does a human being grow and change?
8: Why do human beings control themselves?
9: How does a human being make a decision?
10: To whom the good of all this?
Footnotes for Philosophers
3: The Growth of the Individual
1: What is the difference between a grownup and a child?
2: What does a newborn baby think about?
3: The emotional development of the nursing child
4: How does the child learn to behave himself?
5: The little boy and the little girl
6: Getting along with people
7: When does sex begin?
8: How does the child react to his parents’ behavior?
Footnotes for Philosophers
4: Dreams and the Unconscious
1: What is the unconscious?
2: What is in the unconscious?
3: Why do people dream?
4: Interpreting dreams
5: What is sleep?
Footnotes for Philosophers
Part Two: Abnormal Development
5: Neuroses
1: How can emotions cause physical disease?
2: How can emotions cause physical pain?
3: What is psychosomatic medicine?
4: What is neurotic behavior?
5: What is a neurotic symptom?
6: The different kinds of neuroses
7: What causes neuroses?
Footnotes for Philosophers
6: Psychoses
1: What is insanity?
2: The different kinds of psychoses
3: What causes psychoses?
Footnotes for Philosophers
7: Alcohol, Drugs, and Some Behavior Disorders
1: The different kinds of drinking
2: What is a narcotic addict?
3: The things people can become addicted to
4: How can an addict be cured?
5: What about delirium tremens?
6: What is a sociopath?
7: What is sexual perversion?
8: What is masturbation?
9: What is homosexuality?
10: What are transexuals and transvestites?
Footnotes for Philosophers
Part Three: Methods of Treatment
8: Psychotherapy
1: What is “going to a psychiatrist”?
2: What is psychoanalysis?
3: How psychoanalysis is carried on
4: What happens during an analysis?
5: Who should be psychoanalyzed?
6: Who was Freud?
7: Freud and his followers
8: What is hypnotism?
9: Other approaches
10: What is group therapy?
11: What is family therapy?
Footnotes for Philosophers
9: Transactional Analysis
1: What is Transactional Analysis?
2: What are its main theories?
3: What happens in transactional analysis?
4: Transactional analysis in action
5: The history and future of transactional analysis
Footnotes for Philosophers
10: Allied Professions
A. Psychiatric Social Work
1: What is a psychiatric social worker?
2: What is psychiatric social work training?
3: How does a psychiatric social worker differ from other psychotherapists?
B. Psychiatric Nursing
1: What is a psychiatric nurse?
C. Pastoral Counseling
1: What is pastoral counseling?
2: What is the training for pastoral counselors?
3: Where do people go for counseling?
4: What happens in pastoral counseling?
D. Community Psychiatry
1: What is community psychiatry?
2: What the five psychiatric services offer
3: Why a community psychiatrist can be useful
4: How can psychiatry help industry?
Footnotes for Philosophers
11: Drugs and Other Methods
1: The older drugs
2: Who discovered snakeroot?
3: The kinds of “tranquilizers”
4: What about “truth serum”?
5: What about shock treatments?
6: What are brain waves?
7: What is an air encephalogram?
Footnotes for Philosophers
12: Practical Questions
1: How to choose a doctor
2: Can mental illnesses be cured?
Footnotes for Philosophers
Appendix: Beyond Science
1: What about fortunetellers?
2: What is intuition?
3: How does intuition work?
4: What is extrasensory perception?
5: How does extrasensory perception work?
Footnotes for Philosophers
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