By Robert Langs

This publication presents a good creation to the idea and means of communicative psychoanalysis and hyperlinks it with the growing to be box of evolutionary psychoanalysis. It presents a transparent and stimulating account of a few of the latest advancements of lang's hugely unique and contraversial paintings, which many practitioners proceed to discover deepy unsettling.

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Nevertheless, we may ask to what extent and how does knowing about this trigger reshape our thinking about the session and Ms Allen's material? THE COMMUNICATIVE- ADAPTATIONAL MODEL Theoretically, b a s e d o n extensive prior clinical (Langs, 1982, teration 1992a, 47 experience 1993a), we would expect this frame a l ­ to p o s e a s i g n i f i c a n t mental processing systems. adaptive However, task for M s A l l e n ' s we m u s t t u r n to t h e c l i n i c a l m a t e r i a l to d e t e r m i n e e m p i r i c a l l y w h e t h e r t h e r e i s i n actuality a n y convincing evidence that the patient w a s indeed w o r k i n g o v e r a n d a d a p t i n g to t h i s f r a m e - m o d i f y i n g interven­ tion.

Clearly, the more ef­ fective system is the one that is operating unconsciously, even though the results of its processing activities do not reach awareness directly—they do so only in encoded form and with­ out notable effect on the patients immediate behaviours. Notice again that the introduction of the strong adaptive viewpoint and of trigger-decoding reveals aspects of the emo­ tion-processing mind that were impossible to discern using the standard way of observing and thinking about psychotherapy.

I call these proposals suggestions b e c a u s e , a s we will see, Ms Allen did not take up a n d act on her own u n c o n s c i o u s adaptive recommendations. E v e n a s s h e took strong exception to the timing of the session, she c a m e to the h o u r without protest. Here, too, we have a clue to the design of the m i n d — u n c o n s c i o u s wisdom that goes unapplied i n reality. O n c e more, we come u p o n a quite s u r p r i s i n g proposition. What, then, w a s Ms Allen's u n c o n s c i o u s experience of the frame-deviant trigger?

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