Interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors, some of them abnormal. Explains how little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.

In this revision of his popular & critically acclaimed book, Robert Nye clearly & succinctly presents the essential ideas of Freud, Skinner, & Rogers, three of the most important contributors to contemporary psychological thought. * The author is known for his fair, comprehensive, & above all objective treatment of each of the three theories. "Although the book is concise, it includes all the high points of the major theoretical orientations presented."...