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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "What Were You Thinking?" | |
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| Our Upstairs Computer Was Delivered to Us without a Manual | |
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| Priority Mail to the Late Dr. Freud | |
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| Our Brain/Mind: It Appears to Have Two Separate Operating Systems, One with Its Own Stubborn Agenda | |
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| If Dr. Freud Had Been a Better Communicator ... We Might Have Been Way Ahead of the Game Today | |
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| Can the Limbic Brain Literally Capture Our Rationality? Or, Who Is Really in Charge Up There? | |
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| Dr. Freud and the Theory of "Limbic Capturing" | |
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| Our Core Limbic Drives: The Search for Who and What We Are | |
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| Dr. Freud and the "Dummy Programs" | |
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| The Intensity Levels of the Power Drive: What's the Level of Testosterone in Our Tanks? | |
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| Dr. Freud Challenges the Process | |
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| The Strength of Our Sex Drive | |
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| Dr. Freud Meets an Image of Himself | |
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| The Strength of Our Territorial Drive: "Please, I Need My Space" | |
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| Dr. Freud Weighs the Scales | |
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| Our Capacity to Love and Nurture: Troubles on Both Sides of the Scale | |
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| Dr. Freud Meets a Scale Firsthand | |
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| Our Drive for Survival: Measuring the Level of Our Irrational Fears | |
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| Dr. Freud Meets a Screen Saver | |
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| Limbic Expectations: How the Brain Rewards Us for Doing Stupid Things | |
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| Dr. Freud on the Pleasure Side of the Pleasure Principle | |
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| How Our Limbic Brain Punishes Us | |
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| Dr. Freud Confronts the Issue of Punishing Emotions | |
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| The Need for Vengeance: Why We Find It So Hard to Turn the Other Cheek | |
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| Dr. Freud on Irrational Vengeance | |
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| Shaping Our Limbic Drives: Genes and the Traumas of Life | |
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| Dr. Freud's Encounter with a Punching Bag | |
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| How the Power of Reason Can Create Craziness: Our Limbic Drive for Purpose | |
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| Dr. Freud and the Focus Group | |
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| What Have We Learned?: Coping with and Changing Irrational Outlooks and Behavior | |
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| Dr. Freud and Ego Defenses | |
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| Reaching the Inner Dummy: The Value of Talk Therapy | |
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| Dr. Freud at the Edge | |
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| Other Remedies for Penetrating the Inner Dummy | |
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| Dr. Freud's Decision | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |