Psychotherapy and Science.
Title:
Psychotherapy and Science.
Author:
Langs, Rob.
ISBN:
9780857026194
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (209 pages)
Series:
Perspectives on Psychotherapy series
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Part I - Preparing the Way to Science -- 1 - Why Science? -- 2 - The Call to Science -- 3 - Psychotherapy as a Science -- 4 - Psychotherapy as a Service -- 5 - Three Theories of Psychoanalysis -- 6 - Resisting Science -- Part II - Model-Making -- 7 - Model-Making in Science and Psychoanalysis -- 8 - Preparing for a New Model of the Mind -- 9 - The Perceptual-Analysing Centre -- 10 - The Processing Centres: The Two-System Mind -- 11 - The Output Centre -- Part III - A Formal Science for Psychotherapy -- 12 - The Move toward Science -- 13 - The First Models and the First Results -- 14 - A Cross-Correlational Study -- 15 - A Science Derived from Classical Physics -- 16 - A First Law of Human Communication -- 17 - The Lawfulness of Communicative Work -- 18 - Measuring Mental Energy -- Part IV - Joining Forces with Other Sciences -- 19 - Evolution: The Mainstream Viewpoint -- 20 - Some Fresh Evolutionary Perspectives -- 21 - An Evolutionary Scenario for the Emotion-Processing Mind -- 22 - Universal Darwinism and the Emotion-Processing Mind -- 23 - The Emotion-Processing Mind and the Science of Immunology -- 24 - Cognitive Science and Neuroscience -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
`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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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