Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philosophical roots : Psychology in the making -- The four temperaments of personality -- There is a reasoning soul in this machine -- Dormez! -- Concepts become forces when they resist one another -- Be that self which one truly is -- Personality is composed of nature and nurture -- The laws of hysteria are universal -- A peculiar destruction of the internal connections of the psyche -- The beginnings of the mental life date from the beginnings of life -- We know the meaning of "consciousness" so long as no one asks us to define it -- Adolescence is a new birth -- 24 hours after learning something, we forget two-thirds of it -- The intelligence of an individual is not a fixed quantity -- The unconscious sees the men behind the curtains -- Behaviorism : Responding to our environment -- The sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water -- Profitless acts are stamped out -- Anyone, regardless of their nature, can be trained to be anything -- That great God-given maze which is our human world -- Once a rat has visited our grain sack we can plan on its return -- Nothing is more natural that for the cat to "love" the rat -- Learning is just not possible -- Imprinting cannot be forgotten! -- Behavior is shaped by positive and negative reinforcement -- Stop imagining the scene and relax -- Psychotherapy : The unconscious determines behavior -- The unconscious is the true psychical reality -- The neurotic carries a feeling of inferiority with him constantly -- The collective unconscious is made up of archetypes -- The struggle between the life and death instincts persists throughout life -- The tyranny of the "shoulds" -- The superego becomes clear only when it confronts the ego with hostility -- Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself -- It is notoriously inadequate to take an adopted child into one's home and love him -- The unconscious is the discourse of the other -- Man's main task is to give birth to himself -- The good life is a process not a state of being -- What a man can be, he must be -- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meeting -- One does not become fully human painlessly -- Rational beliefs create healthy emotional consequences -- The family is the "factory" where people are made -- Turn on, tune in, drop out -- Insight may cause blindness -- Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through -- Our history does not determine our destiny -- Only good people get depressed -- Fathers are subject to a rule of silence -- Cognitive psychology : The calculating brain -- Instinct is a dynamic pattern -- Interruption of a task greatly improves its chances of being remembered -- When a baby hears footsteps, an assembly is excited -- Knowing is a process not a product -- A man with conviction is a hard man to change -- The magical number 7, plus or minus 2 -- There's more to the surface than meets the eye -- We can listen to only one voice at once -- Time's arrow is bent into a loop -- Perception is externally guided hallucination -- We are constantly on the lookout for causal connections -- Events and emotion are stored in memory together -- Emotions are a runaway train -- Ecstasy is a step into an alternative reality -- Happy people are extremely social -- What we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth -- The seven sins of memory -- One is not one's thought -- The fear is that biology will debunk all that we hold sacred -- Compulsive behavior rituals are attempts to control intrusive thoughts -- Social psychology : Being in a world of others -- You cannot understand a system until you try to change it -- How strong is the urge toward social conformity? -- Life is a dramatically enacted thing -- The more you see it, the more you like it -- Who likes competent women? -- Flashbulb memories are fires by events of high emotionality -- The goal is not to advance knowledge, but to be in the know -- We are, by nature, social beings -- We believe people get what they deserve -- People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy -- People do what they are told to do -- What happens when you put good people in an evil place? -- Trauma must be understood in terms of the relationship between the individual and society -- Developmental philosophy : From infant to adult -- The goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things -- We become ourselves through others -- A child is not beholden to any particular parent -- Anything that grows has a ground plan -- Early emotional bonds are an integral part of human nature -- Contact comfort is overwhelmingly important -- We prepare children for a life about whose course we know nothing -- A sensitive mother creates a secure attachment -- Who teaches a child to hate and fear a member of another race? -- Girls get better grades than boys -- Most human behavior is learned through modeling -- Morality develops in six stages -- The language organ grows like any other body organ -- Autism is an extreme form of the male brain -- Psychology of difference : Personality and intelligence -- Name as many uses as you can think of for a toothpick-- Did Robinson Crusoe lack personality traits before the advent of Friday? -- General intelligence consists of both fluid and crystallized intelligence -- There is an association between insanity and genius -- Three key motivations drive performance -- Emotion is an essentially unconscious process -- Behavior without environmental cues would be absurdly chaotic -- We cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals -- The three faces of Eve.