ABSTRACT

This book has been written for a broad audience. It is addressed to anyone who is at all concerned with a scientific grounding for the art of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, and for the understanding of the human mind and its outputs via emotionally charged communication. The book begins by establishing the need for a formal science of psychoanalysis and then presents the distinctive features of the communicative approach that moved it towards the creation of that science.

part One|69 pages

Observation, Theory, and Practice in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

chapter One|40 pages

The call for a science of psychoanalysis

chapter Two|27 pages

Two psychoscopes

part Two|98 pages

Systems and Subsystems in Psychoanalysis

chapter Three|49 pages

A systems theory for psychoanalysis

chapter Four|29 pages

The systems of the mind

chapter Five|16 pages

System overload

part Three|73 pages

Psychoanalysis and Science