The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

by Boris Sidis

THE FOUNDATIONS OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

by

BORIS SIDIS, A.M., Ph.D., M.D.

CONTENTS.

Part 1 - Fundamental concepts and principles Preface I Psychology as a Science II Physical and Psychic Facts III The Definition of the Psychic Process IV Psychic States as Objects V The Scope of Psychology VI The Sources of Psychology VII Psychology and Psychopathology VIII The Spiritualistic and Materialistic Hypotheses IX The Transmission Hypothesis X The Metaphysical Hypothesis of Parallelism XI The Unitary Experience of Voluntarism XII The Inductive Basis of the Positive Psychological Hypothesis XIII The Deductive Basis of the Positive Psychological Hypothesis XIV Life and the Psychic Process XV The Chance Aspect of Life and Mind XVI Activity of Mental Life XVII The Postulates of Psychology XVIII Mental Synthesis XIX Theories of Perception XX The Structure and Function of the Perception XXI Primary and Secondary Sensory Elements XXII Secondary Sensory Elements and Hallucinatory Perception XXIII The Attributes of Sensory Elements XXIV Sensation and External Reality XXV The Subconscious and Unconscious Cerebration XXVI The Subconscious and Automatism XXVII The Subconscious and the Passive Consciousness XXVIII Subconscious and Unconscious Ideas XXIX The Subconscious, Conscious and Unconscious XXX The Threshold and Mental Systems XXXI The Principle of Reserve Energy

Part 2 - The theory of the moment consciousness I The Moment Consciousness II Types of Moment and Moment-Threshold III Modifications of Moments in the Organized Aggregate IV Mental Organization V The Growth and Function of the Moment VI The Relation of the Moment to the Environment VII The Assimilation of the Moment in Normal States VIII Abnormal Moments IX Mental Continuity and the Psychic Gap X The Moment-Threshold XI The Process of Moment-Disaggregation XII Reproduction and the Reflex Moment XIII Desultory Consciousness XIV The Synthetic Moment and its Reproduction XV The Accumulative Character of the Synthetic Moment XVI The Simple and Compound Synthetic Moment XVII The Desultory Type in Pathological States XVIII Presentations and Representations XIX Representations and the Laws of their Combinations XX Representation and Recognition XXI The Recognitive Moment and its Reproduction XXII The Synthetic Recognitive Moment XXIII The Synthetic Moment of Self-Consciousness Appendix I - Consciousness Appendix II - Physiological Traces