A chart illustrates the way our particular general systems model was used to order psychoanalytic case material. We hope the sample chart illustrates how a general systems model can be used to represent and organize case material in a graphic way to accentuate the psychodynamic processes occurring within a patient as he interacts with his environment. Here one can follow conscious ideas as they are repressed into the unconscious system and can then see how these unconscious ideas are represented consciously by substitute formations.

One might ask what this exercise has contributed to psychoanalytic theory, to the understanding of Little Hans, and to science in general. Concerning psychoanalytic theory, we believe that use of this systems model enables us to define terms more precisely and gives a more graphic understanding of the