Theoretical Psychology

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1 Introduction. - Some Converging Trends. - Implications of the Development of Western Psychology as a Science . - The Nature of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge. - The Cultural Relativity of Psychological Theories: A Perspective from Anthropology and Culture-and-Personality Studies. - Certain Criticisms and Limitations of the Sociology of Knowledge. - Notes. - 2 Search for Common Ground. - Assumptions regarding the Lawfulness of the Universe. - Assumptions about the Nature of Reality: Ontological Presuppositions. - Man s Relation to Nature. - Assumptions about Human Nature. - The Assumption of Egoism and the Value of Individualism. - Assumptions about the Human Condition. - The Ideal Human Condition. - Notes. - 3 Consciousness: Some Western Views. - William James and his Concept of the Stream of Consciousness . - Structuralism: The Introspectionist Approach. - The Psychology without Consciousness: The Behaviorist Approach. - Psychology of the Unconscious: The Freudian Approach. - The Psychophysiological Approach: The Relationship between Mind and Brain. - The Phenomenological and Existential Approaches. - Notes. - 4 Consciousness: Two Indian Views. - The Yoga of Patañjali. - The Non-Dualist Ved? nta of ? ankara. - 5 Self and Identity. - Personality, Self, Identity. - Erik Erikson s Theory of Identity Formation. - What Accounts for the Unity, Continuity and Sameness in Man? . - The Unity and Continuity of the Stream of Consciousness: Self as Knower. - 6 Overview and Prospect. - On Consciousness. - On the Nature of the Self. - On Cross-Cultural Exchange in Psychology: Problems and Prospects. - Notes. - References. - Author Index.