TY - BOOK AU - Dennis, Lorraine Bradt AU - Dennis,Lorraine Bradt TI - Psychology of Human Behavior for Nurses U1 - O40.1 PY - 1970/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Section 1 Science the search for knowledge of matural laws Chapter 1 What is science ...11 Chapter 2 Psychology : Abehavioral science ...19 Section II Human development Chapter 3 The neonate : Life begins ...31 Chapter 4 Human beginnings ...47 Chapter 5 Learning ...55 Chapter 6 Kinds of Learning ...66 Chapter 7 Learning amd individual differences ...81 Chapter 8 Ages and stages ...93 Section III Human behavior : Why do we behave as we do ? Chapter 9 Search for a theory of human behavior ...113 Chapter 10 Motivation ...125 Chapter 11 Emotions and human behavior ...144 Chapter 12 The concept of personality : Relatively ebduring patterns of individual behavior ...157 Section IV When the vital balance is threated : coping with troubles Chapter 13 Frustration and conflict ...175 Chapter 14 Defense mechanisms : Coping devices ...166 Chapter 15 When defense mechanisms fail : Disturbances of the vital balance ...206 Chapter 16 Mind and bodt : Psychosomatic medicine ...222 Chapter 17 Psychotherapy : Regaining the vital balance ...237 Section V Maintaining the vital balance Chapter 18 The meaning of maturity ...257 Chapter 19 What can we do about ourselves ? ...266 Index ...283 ER -