"In The Buddha Was a Psychologist: A Rational Approach to Buddhist Teachings, Arnold Kozak argues for a secular, psychological, interpretation of the Buddha's teachings"-- Provided by publisher.

Part I: Reclaiming the Buddha from Buddhism -- The legend of the Buddha: History, myth, and hagiography -- The Hermeneutical Buddha: What he taught, what he thought (maybe) -- Part II: The Buddha's pedagogical project: The ennobling praxes (aka four noble truths) -- The first ennobling praxis: What is the problem? -- The second ennobling praxis: Getting to the root of the problem -- The third ennobling praxis: Can the problem be resolved? -- The fourth noble praxis: Resolving the problem -- Part III: Mind on fire: The Buddha's psychological map -- Form: Brain architecture and the neuroplastic forest of self -- Perception: Categorization -- Feeling: Pain and pleasure drive evolution's primary agendas (and give rise to a sense of the one having pleasure and pain) -- Mental fabrication and the modular self -- Consequences: Apparently ubiquitous, certainly overestimated.