The Stream of Consciousness: Scientific Investigations into the Flow of Human Experience: Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy

Introduction: The Flow of Human Experience.- I • Historical, Cultural, and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.- 1 A Search for the Sources of the Stream of Consciousness.- 2 Asian Interpretations: Transcending the Stream of Consciousness.- 3 The Science of Consciousness.- II • Specific Theoretical Formulations and Links to Basic Research.- 4 The Stream of Consciousness: Implications for a Humanistic Psychological Theory.- 5 The Dominant Action System: An Information-Processing Approach to Consciousness.- 6 Two Streams of Consciousness: A Typological Approach.- III • Experimental Approaches to Studying the Stream of Consciousness.- 7 Experimental Studies of Daydreaming and the Stream of Thought.- 8 Modes of Normal Conscious Flow.- 9 How Gender, Solitude, and Posture Influence the Stream of Consciousness.- 10 Dreams and Waking Fantasy.- 11 A Biologic Rhythm in Waking Fantasy.- IV • Implications and Broader Perspectives.- 12 Attention and the Holistic Approach to Behavior.- Author Index.