Psychotherapy and Science by Robert Langs
Published by Sage in the Perspectives on Psychotherapy series.
This challenging investigation of human behaviour shows how a scientific foundation for psychotherapy is both necessary and feasible.
The idea that scientific theories might be applied to psychotherapy is thoroughly and accessibly explored. The author argues that there are striking parallels between the emotion-processing mind and phenomena that have been scientifically observed in the areas of evolution, the immune system and the brain. Throughout, he emphasizes the ways in which science has a bearing on the clinical techniques and practice of psychotherapy.
The book will be a valuable resourse for practitioners, researchers, trainers and trainees in psychotherapy, counselling and counselling psychology, and others.
Part 1. 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.
Part2. Model-making
Model-Making in Science and Psychoanalysis, Preparing for a New Model of the Mind, The Perceptual-Analyzing Center, The Processing Centers: The Two System Mind, The Output Center.
Part 3. 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 4. Joining forces with other sciences.
Evolution: The Mainstream Viewpoint, 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 Counselling and Psychotherapy European Society for Communicative Therapy
Pages: 208
(0761956158) Cloth October 1999
(0761956166 Paper October 1999
This book is published by Sage & Co.
ISBN: 1-891944-05-3