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The author suggests that with the proliferation of information from neuroscience, we are at the point at which we can begin to develop a psychology which is braincentered, and which would also be at the same level of abstraction as ego psychology. This new psychology would function as an addendum to ego psychology and would
help explain the areas (including affect theory and the organic aspects of brain function) in which ego psychology is weak. It would also explain the efficacy of certain treatment modalities, such as biochemical manipulation, behavior therapy, biofeedback, or gestalt techniques. The author believes that with the aid of information theory, neurobiology and psychoanalysis can be linked. He defines information and then shows how brain events, when looked at as informational, can also be seen as a description of mind. He demonstrates how semiotics or the study of signs is similar and parallel to information theory. The latter theory deals more with quantitative, while the former more with qualitative, aspects of information. Using the information-semiotic theory, Olds outlines four kinds of learning that take place in different parts of the brain: affective, behavioral, internalizing, and cognitive. Each mode of therapy in use today can be shown to relate to one of these types of learning.