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Behavior has never reached the level of a natural science. The field has been deeply divided by multiple theories on the one side advancing reason on the other religions promoting moral paradigms. The Formal Theory represents a scientific breakthrough bridging the humanities and the natural science by simply considering emotions as energetic entities and the unconscious as a homeostatic phenomenon transforming unpleasant emotional energy, conflicts, to pleasant social adjustments as resolutions. All stories have this function, conflict resolution. The Formal Theory identified the object for studying behavior as the creative process, the plot of stories as a scientific energy and attitude transformation conflict resolution phenomenon reflecting the unconscious. It is viewed as a natural science and moral order unit order, the integrative paradigm. This purely scientific entity is graphically portrayable, qualifiable as alternative types of conflict resolution, the relational modalities, wellness diagnoses, and is measurable. The Conflict Analysis battery is a self-assessment that identifies the unconscious' two components, a syndrome of six emotions resolving conflicts and along one's relational modality. The self-assessment is didactic, diagnostic, and therapeutic. Religions represent psychological theories that evolved, resolving the conflicts of the family institution by discovering the alternative relational modalities. The Formal Theory integrates them into the Moral Science. Behavior becoming the Moral Science is knowledge that should be made available as an emotional education for the general public. Everybody needs to understand behavior as a science, learn about oneself, one's way of resolving conflicts, and also understand moral values as the principles of conflict resolution. Everybody should understand the unconscious as human nature's innate conflict resolution mechanism, which organizes our emotions and is directed by a need to resolve conflicts. The Moral Science Primer presents the concepts of the Formal Theory their validation and the integration of the social science disciplines. It also introduces the curriculum for a concise emotional education program identified as Creativity and Power Management. It is the reference volume for the delivery of the emotional education program, be that for students in the classroom, couples seeking help, mangers seeking improvement of communications and nations divided by ideological conflicts. The structure of the unconscious is very important as the software of the mind that may be used for the training of the AI chatbot, the GPT in the meaningful analysis of personally relevant texts thus helping to recognize the structure of texts and how they reflect on the author's psyche, their relational modality. Such analysis makes AI personally meaningful. This is the topic for a next publiction transforming Artificial Intelleigence to Artificial Wisdom.

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"MONTAGUE ULLMAN, M.D.[Publication of this volume will be] a significant scientific contribution [...] it may well turn out to be a classic. It promises a great deal and, in a scholarly way, delivers all that it does promise [...] This is a book of considerable value [...] powerful and important enough to exert an increasing influence on psychiatric thought in the future. Not until this work by Levis has any comprehensive, psychodynamically sophisticated theoretical statement been developed based on system and relational principles. The combination of relational logic and system principles is a potent tool for linking psychopathology to its social matrix, something never quite satisfactorily accomplished either by Freud or his environmentalist critics [...] it seems to provide the leverage to arrest the proliferating schools of psychoanalytic theory and organize psychodynamic thinking around more generally agreed upon concepts, assumptions and theorems. The material is not easy reading. It is a treatise to be digested slowly, not so much because of its complexity, but because it forces the reader to think in a different language. When the formulations are grasped they are elegant in their simplicity. The diagrams are not only helpful but necessary, because of the abstractness of the concepts."" WILLIAM GRAY, M.D.It is nothing less than a new way of ordering and conceptualizing human behavior that bridges the here-and-now with man's long behavioral history, and it does so with both the possibility of predictive accuracy and the opportunity for variability and change. It also bridges the conceptual gaps which have existed between cognitive and emotive schools of thought, between psychoanalysis and learning theory, between the work of Jean Piaget and that of the Neo-Freudians - and, finally, between the worlds of psychology and sociology. The Formal Theory achieves this by reconciling the methodology of the 'hard sciences, ' such as logic and mathematics with that of the 'soft sciences, ' the disciplines of human behavior."" DONALD L. MOSHER, PH.D.I am pleased to share in the excitement of new endeavors - the Formal Theory of Behavior and the Conflict Analysis Battery. As a psychologist interested in personality theory and measurement, I feel a particular intellectual excitement when I discover a unique and creative new theory of personality that has generated its own set of operations for its major constructs. As I sat reading the Formal Theory of Behavior, my excitement was piqued-in the sense of stimulated, not in the sense of offended. Stimulated because its author, Albert J. Levis, M.D., had an unusual breadth and depth of knowledge of both the arts and sciences that he was putting to such creative use. I was fascinated by his cyclical theory of six oscillating phases of interpersonal roles derived from his analysis of Greek cosmogony. Beginning from art, he delved deeply i"

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