ABSTRACT

This book draws upon analytically oriented settings for almost all our clinical observations. It provides an excellent introduction to the theory and technique of communicative psychoanalysis and links it with the growing field of evolutionary psychoanalysis.

part I|1 pages

Observation and Architecture

chapter Chapter One|7 pages

The fundamentals of psychotherapy

chapter Chapter Two|7 pages

Some basic tenets

chapter Chapter Three|12 pages

Issues of adaptation for patients and therapists

part II|1 pages

Pursuing the Design of the Mind

chapter Chapter Four|10 pages

The classical models of the mind

chapter Chapter Five|11 pages

The communicative-adaptational model of the mind

chapter Chapter Six|13 pages

Some features of the emotion-processing mind

chapter Chapter Seven|16 pages

The conscious system of the mind

chapter Chapter Eight|16 pages

Probing the deep unconscious system of the mind

chapter Chapter Nine|14 pages

Essential features of the deep unconscious system

part III|1 pages

Consequences of the Architecture of the Mind

chapter Chapter Ten|11 pages

Techniques of therapy and the design of the mind

chapter Chapter Eleven|18 pages

Syndromes of dysfunctional design