Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: The lay of the land; 1 Language and the sense of self; 2 Two conscious mental processes and their languages; 3 Theoretical background of the problem of mental process and consciousness; 4 Fundamental manifestations of primordial consciousness: dreaming and the languages of mother-infant bonding; 5 The relation of mental process and language: the controversy within linguistics; 6 The relationship of language to thought and the sense of self

7 Belief systems and other everyday phenomenology of primordial consciousness and its language8 Primordial consciousness, language, and cultural differences; 9 Emergence of the bilingual sense of self during the attachment phase; 10 What characterizes language aberration?; 11 Language aberration in relation to pathology of early attachment; 12 Clinical methodology and data; Patient essays; 13 Caroline: Schizophrenese; 14 Jane; 15 Charles; 16 Lisabeth; 17 Jacob; 18 Our languages and our selves: discussion and conclusion; References; Index