Communication: The Social Matrix of PsychiatryThe integration of psychiatry into the mainstream of American society following World War II involved rethinking and revision of psychiatric theories. While in the past, theories of personality had been concerned with the single individual, this pioneering volume argues that such theories are of little use. Instead, the individual must be seen in the context of social situations in which rapid advances in communication technology have brought people closer together, changing their behavior and self-expression. |
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... scientists to connect person to person , person to group , and group to the wider social order . At this point the theoretical developments in the field of cy- bernetics and communication engineering were able to bridge the gap . By ...
... scientist to check the correctness of his formulations . In the field of psychiatry , we have programs that are capable of simulating the behavior of patients and the behavior of psychiatrists . The conversation between two com- puters ...
... scientists and clinicians alike strive for mutual understanding . To renounce dogmatic views and to abandon scientific isolation is the fashion of our time . Psychiatrists have moved out of the enclosing walls of mental institutions and ...
... scientist operates at different levels of abstraction . To facilitate the consideration of an event , first within the narrower context of an individual organism , and then within the framework of a larger societal system , the concept ...
... scientists and clinicians , cannot understand each other . To introduce the reader to such a system of explanation in its application to the field of psychiatry the present volume has been written . At this time the reader may ask what ...