Semiotic Approaches to Human Relations

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE THEORY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. SOCIAL PROCESS -- 2. SYNOPSIS OF THE THEORY OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION -- 3. PSYCHIATRY AND THE CHALLENGE OF COMMUNICATION -- 4. PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION -- II. COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL SYSTEM AND CULTURE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. VALUES AND THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION -- 2. SOCIAL TECHNIQUE, SOCIAL STATUS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN ILLNESS -- 3. ACCULTURATION AND ILLNESS -- 4. THE HEALING TRADITIONS : SOME ASSUMPTIONS MADE BY PHYSICIANS -- 5. TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION AND HUMAN AFFAIRS -- 6. TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION -- 7. THE SOCIAL CONTROL OF SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS -- III: COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. INTERACTION PROCESSES AND PERSONAL CODIFICATION -- 2. MASS COMMUNICATION AND MASS MOTIVATION -- 3. THE TANGENTIAL RESPONSE -- 4. CREATION OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM: INTRODUCING THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST TO PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH -- 5. COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES AMONG PSYCHIATRISTS -- 6. ACTION MODELS -- IV. COMMUNICATION AND GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. STRUCTURE AND PROCESS IN SOCIAL RELATIONS -- 2. A GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY BASED ON HUMAN COMMUNICATION -- 3. PSYCHOANALYSIS BETWEEN TWO CULTURES -- V. COMMUNICATION THEORY AND CLINICAL SCIENCE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CLINICAL SCIENCE AND COMMUNICATION THEORY -- 2. PART AND WHOLE: THE SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOSOMATIC APPROACH TO DISEASE -- 3 .PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE AND THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES -- 4. THE INFANTILE PERSONALITY: THE CORE PROBLEM OF PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE -- 5. HUMAN COMMUNICATION AND THE PSYCHIATRIST -- VI. DISTURBED COMMUNICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. ANXIETY: ITS INITIATION, COMMUNICATION AND INTERPERSONAL MANAGEMENT -- 2. THE INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION OF ANXIETY -- 3. COMMUNICATION AND BODILY DISEASE: A STUDY OF VASOSPASTIC CONDITIONS -- 4. THE SCHIZOPHRENIC PATIENT'S WAYS OF COMMUNICATION -- 5. PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH SCHIZOPHRENICS -- VII. THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF COMMUNICATION THEORY -- 2. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COMMUNICATION -- 3. SOCIAL FACTORS IN THERAPY: A BRIEF REVIEW -- 4. NONVERBAL LANGUAGE AND THERAPY -- 5. TRANSFERENCE REFORMULATED -- 6. PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR THE WELL AND PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR THE ILL -- 7. PSYCHOTHERAPY IN THE COMPUTER AGE -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- Backmatter