I pronounced a question, "What is mind?" After 40 years of study, I have elucidated this theme to the level that there are no unanswered questions. The first 30 years were spent studying and developing the Emotion Control Theory (around emotion and personality); the last 10 years have been devoted to the study and development of the Formation Theory of Psychic Phenomena (around consciousness and language). The Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis involves psychiatry, psychoanalysis, linguistics, and brain science, but it hardly overlaps with existing study. It is not typology but etiology, and is not cognitive science but emotion research. That is, the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis is a next generation study developing around different ways of feeling and thinking from any conventional studies.
I first became interested in mind in my high school days because of my own experiences of psychic pain that seemed to occur "without reason." When I was a psychiatric resident, I began psychoanalytic training under the supervision of Dr. Okonogi, who is the leading expert on psychoanalysis in Japan and a researcher of Ajase Complex, I began to build a foundation which was necessary to elucidate my psychic pain "without reason." Following my doctorate studies in medicine, I studied abroad at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, U.S., which was a leading institute for psychoanalytic treatment at the time. For two years, while I studied how treatment was provided at the clinic, I also took educational analysis. At last my psychic pain faded away. Yet I did not know why my psychic pain occurred or how it faded away. Unless I resolved these questions, I could not be sure as to whether my psychic pain had really faded away or not. After much consideration, I left the university setting―an authoritative place wearing an academic mask―to set up my own mental health clinic and started to solve tasks included these questions.
Patients who visited my clinic suffered from different kinds of mental disorders: borderline personality disorders, schizoid personality disorders, narcissistic personality disorders, avoidant personality disorders, and so on. I was able to help these patients recover. And I also discovered, while working with these patients, that individuals had two kinds of mental troubles: "fragility" and "aggression." I realized that individuals suffered due to their inability to control these troubles. It became obvious that there was a big difference between "good" control and "poor" control of mental troubles. It became clear that elucidating this mechanism must become the highest priority. Fortunately, many patients finished their psychoanalysis, and I was able to compare those cases with the interrupted cases. As a result, I found that poor control was caused by a (stubborn) defense mechanism and good control was due to the function of "the loop of forgiveness" and " the loop of help." Finally, I understood the underlying mechanism of psychic pain causing my―and my patients'―troubles.
Further, I wondered if the same mechanism was at work in other psychotic patients and if they could be cured by the same treatment. I started to engage in a desperate struggle to answer these questions. Hard days of treatment sessions with many patients with schizophrenia and manic-depressive disorders lasted 10 years. At last, I was able to obtain a very distinct result. Very psychotic patients need the formation of the loop of forgiveness and the formation of the loop of help, and an extremely complicated process of radical treatment is required with them. This radical treatment needs not be given by an advanced expert therapist, but it is achieved using "two treatments" which are given simultaneously by two therapists. (This treatment works similarly to how two parents raise children.) I thought this methodology of radical treatment was necessary so that it did not require masterly from one therapist nor did it create a risk of patients becoming prescription dependent. The "two treatments" therapeutic model is the origin of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis.
Accomplishment of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis
The Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis is composed of the Emotion Control Theory and the Formation Theory of Psychic Phenomena. The Emotion Control Theory is the nest of intuition based on my clinical experience. Of course, I have used some concepts that have been used by other researchers but I do not praise the result of the researcher by quoting it. To avoid using a new coined term, I quote the concepts of other researchers and revise them for my study. I finish through my intuition all of the establishment of basic concepts, the elucidation of personality and personality traits, the elucidation of symptom formation, the elucidation of disorder formation, the formulation of the radical treatments of psychoses (all group of functional psychic disorders).
The Emotion Control Theory leads to the Formation Theory of Psychic Phenomena. The Emotion Control Theory aimed to create the formulation of radical treatments for psychoses. A principle of this theory is that two therapists simultaneously do two treatments. However, because this principle imposes financial burden on patients and a technical burden on therapists, it is a difficult treatment method in practice. Therefore, I had to determine if there were suitable substitutes to this method. In other words, I think that an artificial mind (AM) is created and psychotherapy (psychoanalysis) is done by an artificial mind (AM). Although the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) is popular in the world, an artificial mind (AM), which I describe, is quite different from artificial intelligence (AI). There are issues to be addressed prior to the creation of an artificial mind (AM). First, we should resolve the generating mechanisms of human consciousness and language. Second, after resolving the first issue, we address how consciousness and language are assembled in an artificial mind (AM) and how do they work? Answering these questions, I have completed the emergence theory for the artificial mind (AM) in which the generating mechanisms of human consciousness and language are elucidated and the manner of assembly and its working is described. Of course, to take this theory forward, we should discover new mathematical processing that is different from conventional mathematical methods. How have I elucidated the generating mechanisms of consciousness and language? I applied the Emotion Control Theory to resolve this issue. See The Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis in the Next Generation for details. All psychic phenomena are included in this book. In other words, all phenomena regarding mind can be resolved by using the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis.
The dialectics have a proposition as "a→non a→a'." By completing a series of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis, I realize that this theory does not negate conventional studies but is effective in renovating them. Positive effects can be produced in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, brain research centered on consciousness, linguistics, and so on.
Conventional psychiatric treatments are based on psychotropic medication and psychotherapy. On one hand, pharmaceutical companies in the world compete fiercely to develop psychotropic drugs which are more effective and have less side effects; on the other hand, regarding psychotherapy, not only some psychiatrists but also many clinical psychologists and counselors have acquired refined interview techniques. To achieve technical improvements, it is useful to practice and theorize treatment with quite a high degree of difficulty which is described in a series of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis. Young therapists should not just use remedial labels such as "adaptation" and "contraindication" but also provide better treatment by seeking and discovering new therapeutic strategies.
It has been more than a century since Freud introduced psychoanalysis. At that time, many psychoanalysts had developed various insistence. It is important for psychoanalysis to address the question concerning the origin of mental structure―which Freud felt conflicted about and could not solve―with a new theory that enables quantification. Through receiving analysis training and succeeding in treating patients suffering from intractable mental disease, I have been able to observe and describe how the emotional control system, which is in the origin of mental structure, exists and works. Now, my theory is going to be supported by a new study, "Emotion-Cognitive Science."
Brain research centered on consciousness study is enormous. My consciousness study presents the content beyond the limit of prior conventional studies. When approaching the study of consciousness, first, basics of the neural network, which demonstrates "this is consciousness," should be presented. Also, one theory describes that both of the processes struggling on to the neural network and the phenomena based on the neural network are the same. Under the given circumstances, regarding consciousness study, researchers seem to repose in the compelling situation and in the vague situation. However, I have broken through the current conditions, and I have produced a new fact, "consciousness is a navigator that goes through a detour to explore the main road." Many people reading this may not understand what it means. When they see the figure described in my book, they will surely understand my intended meaning. (The recurrent network represents the neural network of preconsciousness but does not cause the expression of consciousness itself. In the feed-forward network, the feedback organization is needed to set detours for choices. The input-output system centered on consciousness shows the extent to which neural transmissions vary.)
Even if we follow the achievements of the enormous study on cognitive linguistics by F. Saussure and N. Chomsky, I am afraid that we cannot find the answer to the question, "What is the essence of language?" This is not to say that I negate their studies. In The Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis in the Next Generation, Chapter 7:The Essence of Language, the comparison between the main content of conventional linguistics and "the emotional cognitive language" (the sum of emotional language, emotional related language, and emotional potential language), which I present, is explained clearly.The context formation is quite important to linguistics in the future. The most important task for linguistics is to clarify the whole aspect of context formation. I think that the emotional control system and the language system which I describe are in close contact with each other, because language is generated from a healthy human mind. Moreover, based on my observation and experience in providing psychiatric treatment, I am convinced that an abnormal mind cannot create intelligible words.
Conventional engineering processing has been targeting cognition (cognitive concepts). Regarding emotion, we are led to believe that it can also be processed cognitively. In other words, there are no approaches of "emotional cognition," and emotion is forced to be viewed being under the control of cognition. However, emotion has never been dealt with in such a way. It is a limit in processing. Now, "emotional cognitive science" which exceeds this limit is needed. This starts at mathematical processing of pleasure and displeasure. In order to expect mathematical processing about emotion (pleasure and displeasure), it is necessary to determine what happens when such processing is enabled. The significance of this study was unclear, but now there is a firm theoretical background supporting this study.
In The Integration Theory of Psychoanalsysis in the next Generation, all statements are connected in one work. Upon reading a substantial portion of this book, persons who have confidence in their understanding about mind will have a flush of intuition and will be able to feel the space of mind. Then, at the same time they will be able to think beyond religion and capitalism and, they will realize that remarkable mathematical processing, which is quite defferent from conventional mathematical processing in cognitive science, is needed. In The Integartion Theory of Psychoanalysis in the Next Generation, Consideration about Figure 18: Classification of Language and Context Formation, I have already indicated that quantification of pleasure and displeasure is possible. Therefore, conventional cognitive science is left as is and researchers need to concentrate all their energy on developing a new numerical formula.
Accomplishment of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis
＊See "Introduction of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis in the Next Generation."
The Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis is the revolutionary theory of psychoanalysis. It defines mental health ＆ disease, and elucidates every psychological phenomena. Particularly, the cause of psychosis, schizophrenia ＆ manic-depressive disorders, is clarified and their radical
treatment aiming complete recovery is established. The contents beyond all imagination, the elucidation of consciousness ＆ self-consciousness, the way to enlightenment etc. are included in this book. Not only the expert in the field of psychoanalysis but also the persons who have interest in mind will be strongly affected by this book.
Digest version of the Integration Theory of Psychoanalysis