THE LOGANALYTIC PROJECT

I will presently describe the basic knowledge concerning psycho-hygiene, or psycho-sanitation if you prefer, that the Loganalytic Project intends to share with the general public:

1.      Every instrument needs maintenance, otherwise its efficacy will gradually be jeopardized, to the point of becoming completely useless;

2.      Our mind is our most important tool, and the correct way to keep it functional  is to alternate periods of task completion with periods of maintenance;

3.      To produce a fair balance between these two periods, we have to find a fair balance between the use of (a) executive language (EL) and (b) repairing language (RL);

4.      Homo Sapiens have, over the last 200,000 years, become masters in developing EL, as non-social sciences demonstrate, but, until now, has not been able to develop an apt view of the nature and best use of RL;

5.      My clinical experience has led me to conclude that 75% of patients looking for psychological help are suffering from the consequences of insufficient and/or inappropriate use of RL, the repairing language, so I decided to teach not only those directly linked to me, patients or otherwise, but also the general public, the nature and best way to make use of it.  Setting myself up to do this, I was astonished by the

5.1.   Simple nature of RL;

5.2.   How easily lay people could make good use of RL if duly instructed, thereby getting rid of a host of psychological dysfunctions – theirs and of the people surrounding them (sons and daughters, spouse, friends, neighbors, colleagues);

6.      The essential knowledge concerning RL is that, amidst the infinite number of sentence constructions at the disposal of each language, there is only one kind of construction capable to perform repairing functions, and it has three basic characteristics:

6.1.   Its subject is in the first person singular => “I”;

6.2.   The verb describes the emotion the subject is feeling now, did feel in the past or is expecting to feel in the future;

6.3.   There is some kind of adverbial complement that links such a feeling to a specific situation;

7.      All sentences that do not present these three features do not perform repairing functions; so, for instance:

7.1.1.      “You’re always disrespecting me!” has no repairing function;

7.1.2.     “Yesterday, I felt very disrespected when you exposed part of my private life to my boss” has repairing function;

8.      Learning to make regular use of – when it will not disturb the performance of some adequate executive action, of course – of sentences presenting these three features makes mental dysfunctions gradually disappear in 75% of the patients looking for psychological help (it certainly doesn’t function with people suffering from mental retardation, dementia, psychosis or psychopathy, who account for the remaining 25%);