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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A dictionary without definitions, August 10, 2004
This is a "dictionary" with entries like the following:
Babble, idle-babble instinct
Babble, to-babble instinct
Babies, babies-babble instinct
Babies, male-babies-like-male-babies-better-than-female-babies,-but-female-babies-do-not-show-any-preference-for-either-sex instincts
Baby, the-baby-can-swim-instinct
These are the entire entries. And they are all like this. If you think this is worth even $6.00 (4.80 at Powell's), go ahead.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Reading a list - they claim are 600 Instincts?!, August 13, 2009
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
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is so bad, I had to write a review, June 24, 2009
I totally agree with the other reviewer. How the hell did this piece of trash get published? What a complete waste of time. This is another in a long line of arguments against the publish or perish culture of academia. My god... what a waste of paper.
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