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Why people talk to themselves

J J Andresen

    Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
    |January 1, 1980
    PubMed
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    Patients experiencing shame or loneliness talk to themselves, creating a comforting presence of an unmourned family member. Mourning these losses allows them to internalize identifications and cease the behavior.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Psychoanalytic Theory
    • Clinical Psychology

    Background:

    • Individuals may develop maladaptive coping mechanisms to manage intense negative emotions.
    • Unresolved grief and lack of mourning can impede psychological development and healthy identification processes.

    Observation:

    • Patients experiencing shame or loneliness engage in self-directed talk.
    • This self-talk creates a subjective sense of presence, typically of an unmourned family member.
    • The behavior serves to alleviate immediate distress and can function as resistance in therapy.

    Findings:

    • The "presence" is a manifestation of unresolved loss and a failure to mourn.
    • Insufficient mourning leads to a lack of enriching identifications with family members.

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  • Therapeutic progress involves mourning these losses and internalizing identifications with the figures.

    • Implications:

    • Understanding the function of self-talk in managing grief and loneliness is crucial for therapeutic interventions.
    • Facilitating the mourning process can lead to healthier identification and integration of early relationships.
    • This highlights the importance of addressing unresolved loss in clinical practice.