Sexual motivation promotes the continuance of the species, as well as being a lot of fun.

A few personal notes about what creating this podcast has meant to me, how it was done, and a thank you to everyone who listened.

The class concludes with an upbeat lecture about how we are attracted to each other, how we help each other and what makes us fall in love.

We explore the dark side of human nature questioning how and why evil occurs and how each of us can act heroically to stop it.

Personality disorders are deeply rooted, maladaptive characteristics of personality that are not easily changed.

The most common disorders are Axis 1 disorders, such as anxiety and depression.

Your most powerful sex organ is your brain. We discuss the biology and physiology of an important topic.

Our attitudes shape our behavior, and vice versa. We want our behavior to match our beliefs.

How do you know your place in the world? We will learn about the ways of social thinking that define our identity as individuals and as members of social groups.

What does positive psychology teach us how to live happier, healthier and more fully?

Each school of thought approached psychotherapy in different ways. We start with psychoanalysis and behaviorism.

This lecture covers the scientific thinking that shaped psychology and the three -isms of psychology: empiricism, rationalism, and materialism.

Other approaches to therapy are humanistic, Gestalt, and cognitive therapy.

This lecture is a survey of the treatment of mental illness throughout history.

Mental illness has been recognized for thousands of years but the causes of mental illness have often been poorly understood.

Defining abnormality is harder than you might think. What does it mean to be normal and is it possible that we are all just a little abnormal?

Hunger is a basic motivation for survival that sometimes goes wrong.

Health, Stress, and Coping. The college lifestyle can have health consequences later in life. Finding balance in life.

What are feelings and why do we sometimes work hard for things that could be easier?

Racial differences in intelligence, test bias, the Terminites, and the Bell Curve.

There is more than one way of being intelligent because IQ is not the whole story.

Why do you do what you do? Its all about motivation.

Sigmund Freud says personality is shaped by unconscious instincts, aggressive, and sexual drives. Defense mechanisms cope with anxiety in the psyche.

Sigmund Freud explains how your personality is shaped by age 6 and how we can get stuck in the early stages of personality development.

Humanistic psychology takes a positive view of human personality and shows how we can tap into our potential to grow as human beings.