Our minds, our selves: a brief history of psychology

Prologue

Part One. Significant Ideas. Conscious and Unconscious

The Sad Case of Phineas Gage

Understanding Our Ancestors, Understanding Our Emotions

Individual Differences and Development

Part Two. Learning, Language, Thinking. Stimulus and Response

Language

Mental Models

The Digital World

Part Three. Mind and Brain. You Need Your Head Examined

Mental Illness, Psychosomatic Illness

fMRI and Brain Bases of Experience

Feeling within the Self, Feeling for Others

Part Four. Community. In Affection and Conflict

Cooperation

What Is It about Love?

Culture

Part Five. Common Humanity. Imagination, Stories, Empathy

Authority and Morality

Creativity, Expertise, Grit

Consciousness and Free Will

Epilogue.