By Robert Langs
This crucial textual content not just brings jointly a synthesis of Robert Langs' most vital principles and the most recent advancements in his thinking--many of them of maximum value to all demeanour of therapists--it additionally offers them in a sort that's obtainable to the reader new to the communicative process, in addition to people with extra adventure. With separate sections on thought and perform, and obviously defining the elemental ideas that follow to all varieties of psychotherapy and counseling, the ebook is a wonderful place to begin as a uncomplicated creation to psychotherapy and counseling for trainees and practitioners.
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The conscience does indeed seem to be acting unconsciously, as are the client’s defenses. But rather than discarding the model on this basis, as Freud decided to do, the model could have been preserved by acknowledging that the conscience and psychological defences have both conscious and unconscious components – that they do indeed belong to both the system UCS and PCS–CS – and revising the model accordingly. Nevertheless, the model seems to work very well and the formulations could easily be restated in terms of the structural model by proposing that the patient’s id wish to murder his father had evoked unconscious objections by his superego that activated his ego’s mechanisms of defense to produce a dream that disguises this unconscious drama.
It seldom, if ever, will examine narrative themes in a search for a missing and therefore denied triggering event, much as it is disinclined to engage in trigger-decoding and accessing deep unconscious experiences and processes. As a result, the conscious mind tends to operate in a vast, generally unrecognized sea of ignorance – taking us along with it. Reducing a patient’s use of denial and obliteration is one of the healing goals of psychotherapy and, with severely traumatized patients, this is no easy task.
The resultant contradictions in viewpoints and confusion speaks for problems in the basic model of the mind (see also Gedo and Goldberg, 1973; Goleman, 1985). Comparing topographic models Clinical observations made from the vantage-point of the strong adaptive approach speak for the greater utility of a two-system topographic model of the mind in which the basic configuration is that of 34 Basic Concepts a conscious and deep unconscious system – the latter being so-called in order to distinguish it from Freud’s view of the unconscious domain (Langs, 1986, 1987, 1995).