Robert Aziz begins his new book by enlisting Thomas Kuhn's notion of scientific paradigms. The book as a whole is built on the proposition that the two major historical schools of depth psychology, the Freudian and the Jungian, constitute distinct paradigms, which are now to be superseded by a new paradigm, the syndetic paradigm, proposed by Aziz. The syndetic paradigm, according to Aziz, moves beyond Freud's reductive analytic conflict paradigm and Jung's self-regulatory synthetic paradigm to a position governed by self-organizing processes. The syndetic paradigm, Aziz writes,