Unifying Causality and Psychology: Being, Brain, and Behavior

Part A: Core Causality in Behavior.- Section I: Foundations and Models.- Preface.- Brief Book Description and Book Assumptions.- Overview of Book Sections and Chapter by Chapter Overview.- Introducing Causality in Psychology.- Causality in Philosophy; Philosophy in Psychology.- Models and Systems of Causality of Behavior.- Statistical Concepts and Networks in Causality.- Section II: Biology and Revolutions.- Brain: The Neuronal Network Revolution.- Lateralization and Specialization of the Brain.- The Genetics Revolution.- Gene x Environment Interaction: The Environmental Revolution.- Genes and Environment: The Person Revolution.- Nature and Nurture: Evolution and Complexities.- Part B: Normal and Abnormal Development and Free Will.- Section III: Normal Development and Free Will.- Differential Susceptibility: Orchids, Dandelions, and the Flowering of Developmental Psychology.- Early Adversity, Fetal Programming, and Getting Under the Skin.- Connecting the Social Dots.- Causal Learning: Understanding the World.- Developing the Mind, Minding Development.- Free Will in Behavior: Believing Makes it So.- An Integrated Model of "Free Will" and New Free Will Questionnaires.- Section IV: Abnormalities in Development and the DSM-5.- Free Will in Psychotherapy: Helping People Believe.- PTSD: Traumatic Causation.- DSM-5: Basics and Critics.- The DSM-5 and the RDoC Grand Designs and Grander Problems.- The Disordered DSM-5 Disorders.- DSM-5: Recommendations.- Part C: Personal Contributions To The Study of Causality In Behavior.- Section V: New Models.- Causality in Psychological Injury and Law: Basics and Critics.- Causality in Psychological Injury and Law: Models.- Stimulus-Organism-Response Model: SORing to New Heights.- Networked Causal Terms.- Change Mechanisms.- Section VI: The Neo-Piagetian/ Neo-Eriksonian Model.- A Neo-Piagetian/ Neo-Eriksonian 25-Step (Sub)Stage Model.- Further Expansions of the Present Stage Model.- Generic Change Model.- Revising Maslow.- Staging Revolutions and Paradigms.- New Directions in Psychological Causality.