Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The hidden gender: are you an alpha or a beta?

About time perspective
Is our relation to the three time zones learned or inborn?
About alphas and betas
Time gender interfacing: alphas and betas interacting
Empirical support for the time gender duality
The alpha-beta ratio among men and women is different
About alpha brains and beta brains
Why time gender remained hidden behind a mask of uniformity
Beyond time gender
Notes

Chapter 2: The alpha-beta difference: when, how, and why

When time gender enters the picture
How alphas experience time
How betas experience time
Discovering the difference in the autobiographic memory of alphas and betas
Introducing the autobiographies of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud
Relating Freud's and Jung's theories to their time gender
More about Freud
More about Jung
Martha, the non-believer
Free association has limits, even in betas
Alphas and betas often display no clear differences in their past
We need a basic model to work with
Notes

Chapter 3: The time gender model

The conscious flow of outer events: the world in 4-D
Our body is part of the 4-D world
The conscious flow of inner events: the world in 5-D
5-D: medium of creativity
5-D: about working memory and knowledge memory
We are not born with 5-D
5-D: the preschool years
5-D: the elementary school years and internalization
5-D: self-talk and relating to ourselves
Internalization: the ego gets into the driver seat
Internalizing the clock and calendar (social time)
6-D: internalizing personal milestones into one's life story
6-D and time gender
The nature of 6-D imagery
6-D: Alpha amnesia and beta hypermnesia
7-D: from concrete to abstract mentation
7-D: the Inner Adult, Para-ego, or Voice of Reason
7-D and time gender
The complete time gender model
Notes

Chapter 4: Time gender, mood regulation and self-esteem

Section 1: Theoretical Considerations
About mood
About self-esteem
How alphas pursue self-esteem
How betas pursue self-esteem
Ideals that guide behavior and upbringing
Differences in responding to the present (4-D)
and the past and future (6-D)
More about the timescape of betas
Section 2: Practical Illustrations
Bereavement
Dying and death
Situational mood swings and mood disorders
The story of the depressed alpha Nobel laureate
Troubled alphas often look to the past for answers,
troubled betas look to the present
The story of the depressed beta Nobel laureate
The important emotional role of a beta's future
Summing up
Notes

Chapter 5: Time gender and identity

Inner Child (ego), Inner Parent (superego), and Inner Adult (paraego)
The role of Freud and Jung in this chapter
Freud's model of the mind
Beyond self-talk as an ego - superego duet: from monofocal
to multifocal identity
Meet Carl Jung No. 1 and No. 2, and three George Bernard Shaws
Jung's model of the mind
Accommodating the models of Freud and Jung in the
time gender model
The origin of multifocal and monofocal identity: about motivational contexts
The preschooler's interwoven 4-D and 5-D realities remain multilayered
The preschooler's body self
From preschooler to alpha or beta
Concluding remarks
Notes

Chapter 6: Time gender and social behavior

Section 1: time gender and social needs
Balancing solitude and interaction
Experiencing individuality versus group membership
Time gender and social value systems: religion as an example
Section 2: Time gender and interpersonal style
Prologue
The alpha time gender is extroverted, the beta time gender introverted
Authoritarian-competitive versus egalitarian-cooperative
interpersonal style
The spontaneous alpha style is authoritarian-competitive
Egalitarian-cooperative relating is a natural beta option
Curiosity and resilience to boredom, and time gender
Section 3: Time gender interfacing
Rationalizing behavior of the opposite time gender
Section 4: Time gender linguistics
Some examples
About learning alpha speak and beta speak
Walesa and Mazowiecki
Notes

Chapter 7: Time gender and sexuality, partnering, and parenting

Section 1: time gender and sexuality
Sexual orientation
The age at first sexual intercourse
Casual sex
Abortion
Section 2: time gender and partnering
About legal and common law marriages
Choosing a partner (1): dependency versus autonomy
Choosing a partner (2): the role of time gender
Section 3: marriage and the nuclear family
Introduction
Alphas and betas as intimate partners: statistical data
Alphas and betas as parents: statistical data
Identical time gender marriages
About alpha male / alpha female marriages
About beta male / beta female marriages
About time gender interfacing marriages
Concluding summary
Notes

Chapter 8: Time gender and thinking styles

Section 1: A duality in Western thinking
William James' tough-minded and tender-minded philosophers
Wilhelm Ostwald's romantic and classic scientists
Carl Jung's extroverted and introverted scholars
Max Knoll's experimental and theoretical scientists
Section 2: The thinking styles of alpha and beta scholars
Overview
Flow and context of thoughts
Extroverted versus introverted thinking
Section 3: From scholarly to ordinary thinking
Overview
Flow and context of thoughts
Extroverted versus introverted thinking
Concluding remarks: Eastern thinking
Notes

Chapter 9: Time gender and adolescent development

Developments teenagers share
Adolescence and time gender
About alpha teenagers
About beta teenagers
Adolescence and time gender: statistical data
Self-reported sexual behavior during adolescence
Self-reported alcohol abuse during adolescence
Self-reported illicit drug use during adolescence
Self-reported legal trouble during adolescence
Educational achievement during adolescence
Concluding remarks
Notes

Chapter 10: Time gender and occupation

Section 1: About occupations
Novelists
Actors
Salespeople
Management style
The story of the two bankers
Law students and lawyers
Medical doctors and nurses
Section 2: About politicians
Introduction
Churchill, the alpha politician
Johnson, the beta politician
Notes

Chapter 11: Time gender, nature and nurture

Section 1: Confronting nurture explanations of time gender
The family of origin
The immigration factor
Dysfunctional childhood
Astrology
Section 2: About nature and time gender
About time gendering
A hypothesis about the genetic transmission
of time gender
Concluding remarks
Notes

Chapter 12: The evolution of the modern mind

Homo habilis and Homo erectus
Our Neanderthal cousins
The emerging of 5-D and language
Neanderthals did not yet practice cults or possess art
The African Cro-magnon
The internalization of language: silent thinking in 5-D
Cro-magnon burials and mythology
The Cro-magnon take-over of the Earth
The Cro-Magnon's European civilizations
The appearance of art
The emergence of the time gender duality in 6-D
About the Cro-magnon experience of time and their
autobiographic memory
About the meaning of Cro-magnon art
Were the cave artists men or women?
The agricultural revolution
The disappearance of animals in Cro-magnon cave art
The evolution of 7 D
The evolution of silent self-talk
Notes

Appendix 1: The research sample

Potential implications of the time gender distribution in the sample
About being a psychiatric patient
How the subjects were assembled for the study
The psychiatric profile of the sample
Comparing the 1987-1989 sample with the 1986 Census of
Greater Vancouver BC
Concluding remarks
Notes

Appendix 2: The chronologic biographic interview

Notes

Appendix 3: Summary of time gender features

Bibliography

Author index