REPORT/研究成果報告

Journal of human sciences
2013, Vol8,5-16

How far was the mechanism of consciousness and unconsciousness revealed? :Some suggestion for a integration of psychotherapy from the working memory theory and A.Dmasio’s theory of consciousness.

Takashi Sugiyama
Kanagawa University, Japan

神奈川大学人間科学部年報8巻.5-16

「意識と無意識はどこまで明らかになったのか?:意識のワーキング・メモリ理論とA.Damasio説からの心理療法統合への提案」(本文は欧文タイトルをクリック)

杉山崇

Historically, schools of psychotherapy have focused on unconscious psychological process, but have not composed scientific concept of unconsciousness successfully.
Although unconsciousness had been unconscious in a certain age or era of psychology, some studies are conscious of unconsciousness in modern psychology. Especially, some studies of cognitive science and neuroscience have many results that may explain the mechanism of consciousness and unconsciousness in recent years. This article based on the working memory theory and A.Dmasio’s theory of consciousness, global work space model and intelligent distribution agent model of unconscious psychological process, tried to compose a integrative model of the mechanism of consciousness and unconsciousness. Finally, the author discussed the possibility of integration of psychotherapies through this mechanism.

Key word: consciousness, unconsciousness, A.Dmasio’s theory, working memory theory, psychotherapy