Main description:

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.

Contents:

1) Introduction2) Development, Stages, and Causality3) Development, Brain, and Causality4) Elaborating the Integrated (Sub)stage Model 5) Elaborating Causality in the Unified Model6) Literature Review 20197) Extensions and Innovations8) Literature Review 20209) Further Extensions and Innovations10) Adaptation, Coping, Stress, and Development 11) Broadening Defense Mechanisms: Literature Review and Discussion12) Evolution, Development, Culture, and Human Exceptionalism13) Applying Transemics to Development, Culture, Causality, and Unifying Psychology14) Ethics and Conclusions