Psychology 101

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Soul Doctors
3. Chapter Two - The Birth of the Mind
4. Chapter Three - Freud’s Couch
5. Chapter Four - Pavlov’s Bell
6. Chapter Five - Jung’s Shadow
7. Chapter Six - The Mind in Pieces
8. Chapter Seven - The DSM Decade
9. Chapter Eight - The Humanists
10. Chapter Nine - The Social Animal
11. Chapter Ten - The Age of Therapy
12. Chapter Eleven - The Digital Brain
13. Chapter Twelve - The Mirror We Can’t Escape

Excerpt

PROLOGUE WHAT THE HELL is wrong with us? That’s not the first question. It’s the only question. And for most of history, nobody had an answer. We screamed at the stars. We blamed demons. We dunked women in rivers. We locked the eccentric in towers. We burned the restless at the stake. We called the anxious cowards. The depressed? Lazy. The psychotic? Possessed. Even now, with a hundred years of “science” under our belt, we’re still guessing. Still slapping names on symptoms. Still throwing pills at problems. Still treating the mind like it’s a broken machine instead of a mystery we live inside. Psychology is the story of us trying to figure us out. It’s part philosophy, part medicine, part...