Mental Management explores, describes and studies the mental processes in their diversity. This psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

 of cognitive

Cognitive psychology

Cognitive psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes.It is the study of how people perceive, remember, think, speak, and solve problems.Cognitive psychology differs from previous psychological approaches in two key ways....

 consciousness

Consciousness

Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...

 was elaborated by Antoine de la Garanderie from the analysis of mental habits of numerous subjects.

History

The Mental Management theory was elaborated from numerous pedagogical dialogues since the 1970s.

It is linked to several previous theories, including the works on introspection

Introspection

Introspection is the self-observation and reporting of conscious inner thoughts, desires and sensations. It is a conscious and purposive process relying on thinking, reasoning, and examining one's own thoughts, feelings, and, in more spiritual cases, one's soul...

 by Jean Martin Charcot, Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet

Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who was the inventor of the first usable intelligence test, known at that time as the Binet test and today referred to as the IQ test. His principal goal was to identify students who needed special help in coping with the school curriculum...

, Maine de Biran, the German school of Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

 (Watt

Watt

The watt is a derived unit of power in the International System of Units , named after the Scottish engineer James Watt . The unit, defined as one joule per second, measures the rate of energy conversion.-Definition:...

, Messer

Messer

Messer may refer to:* MESSER, the band from Dallas, Texas* Danny Messer, a fictional character on the television series CSI: NY* Großes Messer, a type of German single-edged weapon* Messer, Oklahoma, United States...

, Bühler

Bühler

Bühler is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland.-Geography:Bühler has an area, , of . Of this area, 62.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 26% is forested...

) and Albert Burloud, who was Antoine de la Garanderie's professor.

Theory

The fundamental concepts of Mental Management are evocation

Evocation

Evocation is the act of calling or summoning a spirit, demon, god or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition. Comparable practices exist in many religions and magical traditions.-Evocation in the Western mystery tradition:...

 and mental project.

Although it doesn't have a phenomenological

Phenomenology (psychology)

Phenomenology is an approach to psychological subject matter that has its roots in the philosophical work of Edmund Husserl. Early phenomenologists such as Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty conducted their own psychological investigations in the early 20th century...

goal, Mental Management is based on several concepts of characterization of evocation :

• the nature (or language) of the evocation : visual, auditive, verbal, etc.
• the parameters used : concrete (P1), codes (P2), logical links (P3) or new links (P4)
• the coding : first or third person
• the place of meaning : spatial

a great application is the game of capsule, likely played in the 6th floor of the X building

Aside this Mental management is used to organize therapeutical wealth in business organisation,

and also to have a clear Mind for working and to strengthen working methods for the social problems at work.