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Psychology for dummies
Part 1. Getting started with psychology
Chapter 1. Seeing the purpose of psychology
Chapter 2. Making sense of what people do: psychology essentials
Finding a framework
Biological
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
Behaviorism
Cognitive
Humanistic and existential
Sociocultural
Feminism
Postmodernism
Working with the Biopsychosocial model
Feeling out the role of the body
Thinking about the role of the mind
Observing the role of the outside world
Resolving the nature versus Nurture Debate
Branching off
Seeking truth
Applying the scientific method
Developing a good theory
Researching matters
Understanding descriptive research
Doing experimental research
Measuring one, measuring all with statistics
Relating variables: correlation versus causation
Doing nothing is something: the placebo effect
Part 2. Picking your brain (And body)
Chapter 3. Hardware, software, and Wetware
Believing in Biology
Recognizing the body's control room
Tiptoeing into the periphery
Moving to the center
Running like a well-oiled machine: Body systems
Forebrain
Midbrain
Hindbrain
Finding out about cells and chemicals
Crossing the divide
Branching out
Activating brain change
Finding destiny with DNA
Understanding psychopharmacology
Easing depression
Shushing the voices
Relaxing
Undergoing No-knife brain surgery
Chapter 4. Conscious beings
Chapter 5. Getting sensitive
Part 3. Thinking and feeling and acting
Chapter 6. Thinking and speaking
Chapter 7. How does that make you feel?
Chapter 8. Barking up the learning tree: dogs, cats, and rats
Part 4. Me, You, and everything in between
Chapter 9. Developing an award-winning personality
Chapter 10. Catching the first boat off isolation island
Chapter 11. Conforming like a contortionist: social psychology
Chapter 12. Growing up with psychology
Chapter 13. Modern abnormal psychology
Part 5. Building a better you
Chapter 14. Assessing the problem and testing the psyche
Chapter 15. Getting comfy on the couch
Chapter 16. Changing behavior, changing thinking
Chapter 17. Being a person is though: client-centered and existential therapies
Chapter 18. Stress, illness, growth, and strength
Part 6. The part of tens
Chapter 19. Ten tips for maintaining psychological health
Chapter 20. Ten great psychological movies