The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology. Boris Sidis

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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      EAN 4064066438234

Table of Contents

       Preface

       I Psychology as a Science

       II Physical and Psychic Facts

       III The Definition of the Psychic Process

       IV Psychic States as Objects

       V The Scope of Psychology

       VI The Sources of Psychology

       VII Psychology and Psychopathology

       VIII The Spiritualistic and Materialistic Hypotheses

       IX The Transmission Hypothesis

       X The Metaphysical Hypothesis of Parallelism

       XI The Unitary Experience of Voluntarism

       XII The Inductive Basis of the Positive Psychological Hypothesis

       XIII The Deductive Basis of the Positive Psychological Hypothesis

       XIV Life and the Psychic Process

       XV The Chance Aspect of Life and Mind

       XVI Activity of Mental Life

       XVII The Postulates of Psychology

       XVIII Mental Synthesis

       XIX Theories of Perception

       XX The Structure and Function of the Perception

       XXI Primary and Secondary Sensory Elements

       XXII Secondary Sensory Elements and Hallucinatory Perception

       XXIII The Attributes of Sensory Elements

       XXIV Sensation and External Reality

       XXV The Subconscious and Unconscious Cerebration

       XXVI The Subconscious and Automatism

       XXVII The Subconscious and the Passive Consciousness

       XXVIII Subconscious and Unconscious Ideas

       XXIX The Subconscious, Conscious and Unconscious

       XXX The Threshold and Mental Systems

       XXXI The Principle of Reserve Energy

       I The Moment Consciousness

       II Types of Moment and Moment-Threshold

       III Modifications of Moments in the Organized Aggregate

       IV Mental Organization

       V The Growth and Function of the Moment

       VI The Relation of the Moment to the Environment

       VII The Assimilation of the Moment in Normal States

       VIII Abnormal Moments

       IX Mental Continuity and the Psychic Gap

       X The Moment-Threshold

       XI The Process of Moment-Disaggregation

       XII Reproduction and the Reflex Moment

       XIII Desultory Consciousness

       XIV The Synthetic Moment and its Reproduction

       XV The Accumulative Character of the Synthetic Moment

       XVI The Simple and Compound Synthetic Moment

       XVII The Desultory Type in Pathological States

       XVIII Presentations and Representations