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Psychotherapy and Science
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Counselling and Psychotherapy (General)
Counselling and Psychotherapy (General)
October 1999 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
`This book issues a challenge to anyone in the field of psychotherapy who is resigned to seeing psychotherapy as solely a service activity or an art or craft. Instead, Langs invites us to see that psychotherapy, clinical technique and practice may have intricate and fundamental conditions to the scientific laws of nature and the universe. This work will also be of value to those psychotherapists who are interested in asking research questions about the process and technique of psychotherapy. It is also a refreshing read in a postmodern era where the pursuit of validity and fundamental laws seems to have gone out of fashion' - New Therapist
PART ONE: PREPARING THE WAY TO SCIENCE
Why Science
The Call to Science
Psychotherapy as a Science
Psychotherapy as a Service
Three Theories of Psychoanalysis
Resisting Science
PART TWO: MODEL-MAKING
Model-Making in Science and Psychoanalysis
Preparing for a New Model of the Mind
The Perceptual-Analyzing Center
The Processing Centers
The Output Center
PART THREE: A FORMAL SCIENCE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY
The Move toward Science
The First Models and the First Results
A Cross-Correlational Study
A Science Derived from Classical Physics
A First Law of Human Communication
The Lawfulness of Communicative Work
Measuring Mental Energy
PART FOUR: JOINING FORCES WITH OTHER SCIENCES
Evolution
Some Fresh Evolutionary Perspectives
An Evolutionary Scenario for the Emotion-Processing Mind
Universal Darwinism and the Emotion-Processing Mind
The Emotion-Processing Mind and the Science of Immunology
Cognitive Science and Neuroscience
`This book issues a challenge to anyone in the field of psychotherapy who is resigned to seeing psychotherapy as solely a service activity or an art or craft. Instead, Langs invites us to see that psychotherapy, clinical technique and practice may have intricate and fundamental conditions to the scientific laws of nature and the universe. This work will also be of value to those psychotherapists who are interested in asking research questions about the process and technique of psychotherapy. It is also a refreshing read in a post modern era where the pursuit of validity and fundamental laws seems to have gone out of fashion' - New Therapist
