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`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
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Psychotherapy and Science Perspectives On Psychotherapy
author
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Langs, Robert.
publisher
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Sage Publications, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
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0761956158
print isbn13
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9780761956150
ebook isbn13
:
9780585348483
language
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English
subject
Psychotherapy--Science.
publication date
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1999
lcc
:
BF1729.P83.L36 1999eb
ddc
:
616.8914
subject
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Psychotherapy--Science.
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Psychotherapy and Science
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Perspectives on Psychotherapy
editor: Colin Feltham Sheffield Hallam University
Each book in this challenging and incisive series takes a particular perspective on psychotherapy to place it in its intellectual and cultural context. Disciplines which will be brought to bear in this series will include sociology, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, science and feminism.
Books in the series
Philosophy and Psychotherapy Edward Erwin
Psychotherapy and Society David Pilgrim
Feminism and Psychotherapy edited by I. Bruna Seu and M. Colleen Heenan
Therapy Across Culture Inga-Britt Krause
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Psychotherapy and Science
Robert Langs
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Robert Langs 1999
First published 1999
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publishers.
SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU
SAGE Publications Inc 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater KailashI New Delhi 110 048
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 0 7619 5615 8 ISBN 0 7619 5616 6 (pbk)
Library of Congress catalog record available
Typeset by Mayhew Typesetting, Rhayader, Powys Printed and bound in Great Britain by Athenaeum Press, Gateshead
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CONTENTS
Part I Preparing the Way to Science
1
1 Why Science?
1
2 The Call to Science
8
3 Psychotherapy as a Science
12
4 Psychotherapy as a Service
22
5 Three Theories of Psychoanalysis
25
6 Resisting Science
37
Part II Model-Making
44
7 Model-Making in Science and Psychoanalysis
44
8 Preparing for a New Model of the Mind
54
9 The Perceptual-Analysing Centre
60
10 The Processing Centres: The Two-System Mind
69
11 The Output Centre
73
Part III A Formal Science for Psychotherapy
78
12 The Move toward Science
78
13 The First Models and the First Results
86
14 A Cross-Correlational Study
93
15 A Science Derived from Classical Physics
97
16 A First Law of Human Communication
101
17 The Lawfulness of Communicative Work
106
18 Measuring Mental Energy
110
Part IV Joining Forces with Other Sciences
116
19 Evolution: The Mainstream Viewpoint
116
20 Some Fresh Evolutionary Perspectives
130
21 An Evolutionary Scenario for the Emotion-Processing Mind
138
22 Universal Darwinism and the Emotion-Processing Mind
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