Clinical Practice and the Architecture of the Mind

Robert Langs, M.D., is well known as the author of many books on the subject of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, including 'The Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy' (2 volumes), 'Psychotherapy: A Basic Text' , 'A Primer of Psychotherapy ' and 'Decoding Your Dreams'. He is currently Executive Director at the Program for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Beth Israel Medical Center, New York; Clinical Professor with the Department of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai Hospital and School of Medicine, New York; and Visiting Clinical Investigator at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York.

Foreword -- Observation and Architecture -- The fundamentals of psychotherapy -- Some basic tenets -- Issues of adaptation for patients and therapists -- Pursuing the Design of the Mind -- The classical models of the mind -- The communicative-adaptational model of the mind -- Some features of the emotion-processing mind -- The conscious system of the mind -- Probing the deep unconscious system of the mind -- Essential features of the deep unconscious system -- Consequences of the Architecture of the Mind -- Techniques of therapy and the design of the mind -- Syndromes of dysfunctional design