Psychotherapy and Science

Robert Langs is a practising psychoanalyst, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and Honorary Visiting Fellow of Regents College, London. He is the author of over 40 books, including a full-length play entitled Freud's Birds of Prey, and some 150 papers on psychotherapy and related topics in which the quest for a science of psychotherapy and its integration with other sciences has taken a prominent place.

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 Two System Mind 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 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

`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