Causality and Neo-Stages in Development: Toward Unifying Psychology

✍ Scribed by Gerald Young

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 460
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book represents a broad integration of several major themes in psychology toward its unification. Unifying psychology is an ongoing project that has no end-point, but the present work suggests several major axes toward that end, including causality and activation-inhibition coordination. On the development side of the model building, the author has constructed an integrated lifespan stage model of development across the Piagetian cognitive and the Eriksonian socioaffective domains. The model is based on the concept of neo-stages, which mitigates standard criticisms of developmental stage models. The new work in the second half of the book extends the primary work in the first half both in terms of causality and development. Also, the area of couple work is examined from the stage perspective. Finally, new concepts related to the main themes are represented, including on the science formula, executive function, stress dysregulation disorder, inner peace, and ethics, all toward showing the rich potential of the present modeling.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Causality
Stages
Causality Again
Broad Scope
Unification
Theories
Exceptionalism
Innovation
Research
Practice
Literature Reviews
Overall
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Overview
Chapter Summaries
Philosophy and Science
Conclusions
Book Summary
Market
Other Books
References
Chapter 2: Development, Stages, and Causality
The Neo-Piagetian/Neo-Eriksonian Model
Piaget
Erikson
Self
Innovations
Stages and Substages
Diverse
Social-Emotional
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Development, Brain, and Causality
Causality
Systems
Activation-Inhibition Coordination.
Networks
Activation-Inhibition Coordination
Biopsychosocial
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Epigenesis
Gene Interactions
Environment
Activation-Inhibition Coordination Again
Laterality
Introduction
Development
Causality
Evolution
Brain
Modeling
Free Will
The Causality Pinnacle
Intraaction
Integrated Cross-networks
System Networks
S-O(BAMP)-R
Etiology
Conclusion (for Chaps. 2 and 3)
References
Chapter 4: Elaborating the Integrated (Sub)stage Model
Neo-Piagetian Development
Neo-Eriksonian Development
Yoking
Patients
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Elaborating Causality in the Unified Model
Networking
Emergent Circular Causality
Staging
Mechanism
Change
Attracting
Therapy
Science Modeling
Conclusion (to Chaps. 4 and 5)
References
Chapter 6: Literature Review 2019
Philosophy
Causality
Unification
Developmental Causality
Handedness
Brain Lateralization
Networks
Cognitive Networks
Activation-Inhibition Coordination
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Piaget
Commons
Erikson
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Extensions and Innovations
A Novel Application to Couples and Couple Therapy
Couple Work
Activation-Inhibition Coordination
Networks
Systems
Levels
Attractors
Therapy
Stages
Higher-Order Versus Lower-Order Cognitive Generalization in Stage Transitioning
Revising Neo-Piagetian Mechanism Models
Networks and Systems in Resilience
Continuing Innovation: Psychological Energetics
Fractalization
Attractor Landscapes as Fractalization Expressions
Supplement
Conclusion
Conclusions (to Chaps. 6 and 7)
Interim Commentary
References
Chapter 8: Literature Review 2020
Unification and Causality
Unification and Mechanism
Unification Fields
Conclusion
Development
Piagetian Research
Eriksonian Research
Causal Learning
Developmental Dynamics
Revising Executive Function
Lateralization in Development
Conclusions
References
Chapter 9: Further Extensions and Innovations
The Science Formula: The Nature of Science and Why It Matters
Extension of Couple Work (Couple Therapy) According to the Neo-Eriksonian 25-Step Model
Executive Function as a Critical Causal Mechanism in Behavior
Template for Stress Dysregulation Disorder
Inner Peace
Evolution of Larger Entities Based on the Five Step Change Model
Conclusions
References
Chapter 10: Adaptation, Coping, Stress, and Development
Model Building
Premises
Adaptation, Coping, Defensivity/Offensivity
Interim Discussion
Neo-Eriksonian Development
The Model
Conclusion
References
Chapter 11: Broadening Defense Mechanisms: Literature Review and Discussion
Literature Review
Adaptation and Coping
Bayesian Brain/Predictive Processing
General
Clinical
Stress, Coping, Adaptation
Stress
Disorders/Symptoms
Theory
Fight/Flight/Freeze
Alexithymia and Suppression
Alexithymia
Suppression
Defense Mechanisms
General Considerations
Developmental Considerations
Adult Considerations
Interim Comment
Discussion
Summary
Adaptation/Coping
Defensivity/Defense Mechanisms
Theoretical Integration
Theory
Reconfiguring and Redefining Defense Mechanisms
Defense Function Hierarchy
Reconfiguring and Redefining Coping Mechanisms
Future Research
Address Limitations
Adaptation/Coping
Development
Coping
Defense Mechanisms
Overall Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Evolution, Development, Culture, and Human Exceptionalism
Introduction
Scope
Definitions of Culture
A Model of Developmental and Evolutionary Steps
Steps in the Evolution of Mind
A 25-Step Model of Human Development
Five Substages
25 Steps
Causal Co-cognition
A Five-Step Model of Future Human Development
A 30-Step Model of Development and Cultural Evolution
The Model
Human Exceptionalism
Literature Review
The Modern Mind and Its Exceptionalism
Introduction
Causal Cognition
Social Cognition and Sociality
Biology and Brain
Nonhuman Primates
Interim Conclusion
Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: Applying Transemics to Development, Culture, Causality, and Unifying Psychology
Detailing Transemic
General
Poetics and the Profane
Mechanisms
Interim Summary
Recent Research Supportive of the General Themes of the Book
Steps of Change
Other Themes
Transemics in Action
Five Steps
Hypothetical Examples of Transemic Growth
Interim Summary
Transemically Redefining Causality, Development, and Unifying Psychology
Causality
Unification
Development
Other Transemic Perspectives on the Young Books
Interim Summary
Literature Review
Introduction
Indigenous Psychologies
Indigenous Psychologies Eloquence
Related Approaches
Interim Summary
Discussion
References
Chapter 14: Ethics and Conclusions
Ethical Work
Children’s and Youth’s Rights
Preamble
Premises
Informing of Children and Youth Their Rights
Supportive Literature Review
Conclusions
Chapter Summary
Summary of the Present Book
Unification
Transemic
Origins
References
Index