Masters of the Mind (eBook)

Theodore Millon, PhD, DSc, Professor Emeritus of Harvard Medical School and the University of Miami, is currently Dean and Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology in Coral Gables, Florida. Developer of several influential diagnostic instruments, he is author of numerous other Wiley books, including the forthcoming Personality Disorders in Modern Life, Second Edition.

Prologue.

PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL STORIES.

1. Demythologizing the Ancients' Spirits.

2. Resuscitating and Fashioning Scientific Thinking.

PART II: HUMANITARIAN STORIES.

3. Creating and Reforming the Custodial Asylum.

4. Rekindling Sensibilities and Releasing Potentials.

PART III: NEUROSCIENTIFIC STORIES.

5. Identifying, Describing, and Classifying Psychiatric
Disorders.

6. Exploring and Altering the Convoluted Brain.

PART IV: PSYCHOANALYTIC STORIES.

7. Exposing and Decoding the Unconscious.

8. Innovating the Intricacies of Intrapsychic Thought.

PART V: PSYCHOSCIENTIFIC STORIES.

9. Untangling Learning and Remedying Behavior.

10. Scrutinizing Introspections and Rebuilding Cognitions.

PART VI: SOCIOCULTURAL STORIES.

11. Unveiling the Social and Anthropological World.

12. Exploring and Enhancing Interpersonal Relationships.

PART VII: PERSONOLOGIC STORIES.

13. Enlisting Evolution to Elucidate Human Adaptations.

14. Systematically Measuring and Integrating the Mind.

Epilogue.

About the Author.

References.

Index.

A magnificent work from an author who is, himself, a master of the
mind. -- Raymond D. Fowler, Ph.D. (Past President and former
CEO of the American Psychological Association)

Sweeping in scope and truly impressive in its scholarship,
Millon's text traces historical developments and identifies
the thinkers and scientists who from antiquity to the present time
have shaped contemporary understanding of how the mind works. This
captivating and informative volume will be appreciated and valued
by all readers interested in the history of ideas. --Irving B.
Weiner, Ph.D. (University of South Florida)

Wide ranging, cohesive and imminently readable, Theodore
Millon's Masters of the Mind is a tour de force from one of
the world's leading psychologists....a major touchstone for
all those interested in these fascinating stories of mental
disorders and the search for systems to understand and treat
[them]. --Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D. (Connecticut Center for
Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy)

A fascinating, informative, comprehensive, broad-minded,
brilliant and perceptive tour of the universe of views of mental
function and dysfunction, this book helps the reader understand
contributions from nearly every conceivably relevant discipline
throughout history. Himself, a long time advocate and practitioner
of creative and integrative theory supported by data (as well as
measurement techniques designed to generate such data), Millon
provides enlightening commentary at the end of each chapter as well
as in an epilogue at the end of the book. After reviewing a
breathtaking array of perspectives, he offers a simple but profound
suggestion for how to put it together. "Intrinsic unity cannot be
invented.. by arbitrary efforts to synthesize disparate and
disjunctive theoretical schemas... The natural sythesis.. inheres
within patients themselves." In this wisdom, he urges all of us -
clinicians, theorists and researchers alike - to stay close
to the data offered ! by real persons- whole human beings seen in
the broad array of contexts marked by Millon in this amazing and
wonderful book I shall ask that all of my trainees read and re-read
it, whether they are still in professional schools, or returning
for continuing education. -- Lorna Smith Benjamin,
Ph.D.(University of Utah)