The Psychic Immune System

A Hidden Epiphenomenon of the Body's Own Defenses

By (author) Jerry Kroth

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Publication date:

09 September 2016

Length of book:

296 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498528924

The Psychic Immune System theorizes the existence of a hidden variable that acts via both unconscious and conscious processes to protect humans individually and collectively from mortal threats. Much like the physical immune system, the psychic immune system scans for danger, protects, heals, and ensures human safety and survival. Kroth argues that it isn’t just luck that has enabled people to survive the multitude of epidemics, wars, and environmental disasters that could have resulted in extinction, but rather the work of a complex system that has enabled us to survive. Scrutinizing a variety of past and present threats, Kroth points to traces of a systematic force that has protected humans. Recommended for scholars of psychology, history, and political science.

Introduction: Invisibility

Two Strains of Plague

On the Shore with Thucydides

Nuclear Winter

Innate Psychic Immune System: Fight-Flight, Competition, and Territoriality6. The Innate Psychic Immune System: Cooperation, Nonviolence, and Reciprocal Altruism 7. The Adaptive Immune System Artificial Psychic Immune System
Invisible Psychic Immune System
Part III: An Experimental Test of the Theory

10. Hypothesis Testing: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
11. How Global Warming Might Test the Theory of the Psychic Immune System

The Psychic Immune System offers us all a challenge. If who we are and what we do are merely superficial topics, then why we do what we do may hinge on the operant factors of the psychic immune system. It is well worth a first and second read.