Unifying Causality and Psychology ― Being, Brain, and Behavior

This book focuses on integrating the causality of behavior as the first step toward integration of psychology as a science. By coalescing the multiple causes of behavior, this volume offers a constructivist, rather than reductionist perspective illuminating factors such as self, free will, and nature vs. nurture. The first comprehensive book on the causality of behavior, this volume reviews the multiple views of causality encompassing philosophy, relationism, neoconstructivism, biopsychosocial and dynamical systems theory, embodiment, and network models. Major areas covered are biological influences on development, development and free will, the use of free will in a psychotherapeutic setting. Most important, the author presents a new model of development going beyond Piagetian and Eriksonian theories, carries theory into the realm of concrete clinical applications.

Gerald Young, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Glendon College, York University. Dr. Young founded and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal of Psychological Injury and Law. Dr. Young also founded and is President of the Associationfor Scientific Advancement in Psychological Injury and Law. Dr. Young recently published a book that covers all areas of psychological injury and law, focusing on malingering,see Malingering, Feigning, and Response Bias in Psychiatric/ Psychological Injury: Implications for Practice and Court(2014). Dr. Young has published other works in the area, see Causality of Psychological Injury: Presenting Evidence in Court (2007). For Dr. Young’s research in child development, seeDevelopment and Causality: Neo-Piagetian Perspectives (2011); see also Dr. Young’s most recent trade bookYou Can Rejoin Joy: Blogging for Today’s Psychology (2012). Dr. Young has published multiple journal articles, specifically on psychological injury, law, causality, PTSD, and pain.Dr.Young may be reached at gyoung@glendon.yorku.ca.