The practicing psychoanalyst of today is more interested in communicating than in speculating about ways, means, and methods of communication. He follows the example of Freud, who is said to have once remarked, upon listening to a paper on methodology: 'How do you like to be shown the menu and never get to eat the food?'. However, there is a possibility that the science of communication points to the future and to the answer about the essentials of the psychotherapeutic process.

Ruesch tries to define all methods of psychiatry and of psychotherapy in terms of communication. His first book considered communication to be 'the social matrix of psychiatry'. In his next book he described the importance of 'nonverbal communication'. His two