Table of contents : Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Contents Part One. Toward a Physiological Theory of Communication I. Continuity Physiology, Sociology, Psychiatry II. The Nervous System The Internal Instrument III. Language The External Instrument IV. Thinking as a Mechanism of Adaptation V. Thinking as a Skill VI. General Features of Skilled Action VII. Τhe Necessary Condition for Thinking An Intact Nervous System VIII. The Sufficient Condition for Thinking A Social System IX. The Creative Condition for Thinking An Ability to Synthesize Patterns Part Two. Implications for Psychotherapy X. Psychotherapy and Modern Science XI. Epistemological Aspects of Psychotherapy XII. Thinking and Implications for Psychotherapy XIII. Interpretative Psychotherapy XIV. Structure of the Psychotherapeutic Situation Bibliography Index