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A Dictionary of Human Instincts

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This is the best we can come up with?

I'm going to recommend another book, (which is definitely a dictionary of human instincts),

and that is Cavemen With Cell Phones by Simon Gray.

It's simple, straight forward, easy to read, and obviously way ahead what else is out there.

Happy reading!

A DICTIONARY OF HUMAN INSTINCTS - N.K.Oeijord & M.C.Bronston, 01 US

This small book is innovative in 3 ways listing 600+ Human instincts alphabetically, including many learned abilities & repeats the word `instinct' over 1000 times without defining how they're learned or function in human life. Its a long brainstorm & assumes we know or agree on the general term like: "child-parent fixation instinct", "loathing instinct & "a sense of purpose instinct". It vaguely mentions learning & instinct but not very different, so innate needs & abilities are all mixed up with learning like help instincts: to beg for, to give, to help (verb), helpful, shout for, & helpless 2x. Assuming help & 100s of other `instincts' are innate or inborn o learned, "only instincts can learn". That looks like `learning theory' in education, not primal abilities whether human nature, inherited, learned or psychic perception. So reader needs a another dictionary to define many terms missing in most normal English dictionaries, social science, medical & psychology texts. Its redundant, conformist, speculative, & maybe interesting to considering we even have natural instincts?

Many multi `instincts are listed, there's 10 kinds of awareness, 34 `love' instincts, 34 kinds of aggression, 13 body instincts, 6 attack-er, 8 attention, 11 babies instincts, 1 Balance instinct, 2 cooperation, 5 control-ing, 8 clinging,

1 belongingness, 3 nature, 6 romantic, 6 humor, 1 healthy, 6 control-ing, 54 dis... disagreement to distrust, 7 - fall..., 10 fear - less, 8 fight-ing, 12 food, 14 - group, 6 humor, 3 insult & 14 signals of, 11 laugh-ter, 10 looks, memory - 21 varieties, 9 moods, 6 music-al, 5 panic, 7 parent-al, 5 status, 6 passion-ate, 9 person-al, 12 play-ful-ness,

6 pleasure, 5 power & less, 5 pride, 4 property, 5 quizzical, 5 rage, 6 relaxation, 7- sleep, 6 squat, 6 revenge, 72 `self' ways, 25 sex-ual, 4 shriek, 5 skin, 6 sleep-ing, 6 smell-ing, 8 smile-ing, 15 social, 6 stare, 4 stress, 4 success,

6 sweet-ness, 4 talking, 5 tension, 6 territorial, 5 thinking, 6 threats, 6 touch-ing,

29- "un.. appetizing to unwillingness", 5 violent-ence, 6 visuial-ize, 7 voice-vocal, 4 vulgar, 5 wander-ing, 4 worry,

4 worship, 4 blame, 14 eyes, 5 grin-ing, 4 prude...nce, 1 infantile play & a `birth cry' but no 'birthing' instincts of mother or baby.

However it mentions (not listing) there's 60 infant reflexes, or mini-instincts. It has 3 'rational/reason' & no researching or realizing. I bet the authors live indoors thinking too much, & not feeling in wild Nature?

It lists NO instincts on - afterbirth, asking or answering ?, agreeing, androgynous, awake-ning, balancing, birthing labor contractions, bisexual, biting, bonding, carrying, centering, changing, conception, connecting, cooperating, cough or coffing, discovery, doubting, escaping, falling, farting, flashback, flexibility, gazing, grounding, healing, equality, growing, laying, massage, needing, nursing, oness, orienting, parenting, peeing, pooping, presence, questioning, reaching, recognizing, rolling, scanning, sensation, sneezing, sucking, synchronicity, spirit or soul, spasms, squatting, stretching, stroking, spiraling, sweating, tracking, urinating, unity, vomiting, weening,

There's many learned patriarchal, dominating, controlling prejudice, scary words of modern life, illness, disability, prejudice, fears, neurosis, mutations, trauma, etc; claimed to be instincts. I believe organic instincts are healthy

innate needs, feelings & responses from birth that blossom during natural growing cycles, not living in cities stress.Iron Shirt Chi Kung