My name is David Gordon Bain. I am putting this essay lecture
out here as a trial balloon. If it goes over well, then there could be many to
follow. I have studied psychology for more than 40 years now, and the
work-as-a-whole that I have in mind under the title given above, would constitute
the main essence of what I have learned in these 40 years, in as comprehensive
and integrative a fashion as I can present it. First, let me give you a quick
resume of my education and experience in psychology.
I entered The University of Waterloo, Ontario in 1974, and in my last year there, in 1979, I wrote my Honours Thesis in psychology for one of the earliest cognitive-behaviour theorists and therapists Dr Donald Meichenbaum. Today, looking back at that essay from a psychoanalytic or neopsychoanalytic perspective, I would say that it was an essay on 'Central Ego Functioning and Dysfunctioning' from a largely Cognitive-General Semantic, and Humanistic-Existential perspective.
However, by the time I finished that essay, I realized that there was a much 'deeper' body of knowledge that I needed to study and investigate specifically, or at least mainly, the 'cognitive templates' that exist in our subconscious mind that have been there since we were children. Read more......
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