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  • Neuroscience
  • Linguistics

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  • Repetitive psychological trauma can disintegrate, constrict, and distort the sense of self, higher order consciousness, and mind.
  • Individuals experiencing such trauma often exhibit speech patterns characterized as 'chronicle,' which is literal and asymbolic.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide a condensed rationale for a relational approach to address the problem of disintegrated self and asymbolic speech following psychological trauma.
  • To explore the potential of therapeutic relatedness in restoring symbolic function and the sense of self.

Main Methods:

  • The paper proposes a relational approach grounded in developmental psychology and the concept of 'proto-conversation' between babies and caregivers.
  • It outlines a therapeutic method involving interactive 'patterning' of verbal 'pictures' or analogues of the subject's immediate experience.

Main Results:

  • The study posits that a restorative and generative form of relatedness is a natural human propensity, rooted in our biological heritage.
  • This relatedness begins as early interactions ('proto-conversation') and forms the basis for therapeutic interventions.

Conclusions:

  • Therapeutic relatedness, guided by developmental principles, can facilitate the use of symbols, which is a hallmark of human cognition.
  • The proposed relational approach offers a pathway to address the consequences of trauma on selfhood and symbolic capacity.