ABSTRACT

The whole region of Psychology may be divided into areas of research according to the number of persons concerned. Thus we may speak of One-Body Psychology, Two-Body, Three-Body, Four-Body and Multi-Body Psychology. One-Body Psychology deals with the simpler neurological problems which used to fill the psychological journals: perception, memory, learning, reaction-times and the like. When speaking thus of the number of bodies concerned in psychological study it should not be thought that satisfactory conclusions can be drawn from mere counting. The difference between the work of the psychiatrist and the mathematical psychologist lies in the degree of shared concern between the two parties to the undertaking. Great learning in pharmacology does not qualify a man to use drugs with clinical discrimination, and so with the other basic sciences, not excluding psycho-pathology. The Three- and Four-Body Psychiatry would include the psycho-analytical contributions, and the Multi-Body Psychiatry would include the interaction of the patient with his cultural environment.