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Previous Volume 340:1219 April 15, 1999 Number 15

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By Richard Brockman. 297 pp. Madison, Conn., Psychosocial Press, 1998. $37.95. ISBN 1-887841-14-8.

In A Map of the Mind: Toward a Science of Psychotherapy, Brockman proposes that psychotherapy be established as a prospective science practiced "in accordance with scientific procedure." He presents a systematic therapeutic approach that draws on psychoanalytic understanding, current developmental theory, behavioral psychology, neurobiology, the classification of diagnoses in the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and psychopharmacology. His approach requires the continuous generation and testing of hypotheses that are based on the "centrality of affect" in early attachments, which determine patterns of relating to others, and on the brain's dual system for processing memory . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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