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Almost three decades have passed since Dr. Otto Isakower, on October 14th and November 20th, 1963, described for the New York Psychoanalytic Institute's training and supervising analysts ideas about how to (1) acquire information about the psychological attributes of an analysand's organism; (2) intervene to diminish an analysand's psychological aberrations; and (3) by assisting in the investigation and treatment of a specific patient, to teach such scientific and clinical knowledge to an analyst in training.
An analysand's normal and deviant psychological attributes come under the analyst's scrutiny when the analysand describes, under the controlled conditions of psychoanalysis, the flow of momentary inner conscious experience, which can be viewed as the landscape of each individual's psychological inner world. In this landscape myriad liminal and subliminal vistas are registered; myriad excursions are intentionally and unintentionally undertaken; myriad intentional and unintentional acts occur knowingly and unknowingly.
The breadth and depth of man's psychological inner world probably is more varied and extensive than the earth's continents and oceans. The arena investigated by analysis of the psyche is truly vast and varied.
On-line inner conscious experiences are intentionally and unintentionally detected by the individual in whom they occur via registration of assorted inherent bearers of psychological information such as thoughts, images, memories, “sensings,” emotions, moods, impulses, inner and outer world acts, and the effects of the organism's physiological, molecular, biological and genetic activities on inner conscious experiences.