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Language and Connection in Psychotherapy - Words Matter (Hardcover)
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Language and Connection in Psychotherapy - Words Matter (Hardcover)
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Language plays a major role in our daily lives. Humans are
specialized to live in a social environment, and our brains are
"designed" to manage interactions with others which are, for the
most part, accomplished through words. Language allows us to
function both cognitively and interpersonally, and without language
there are constraints on our ability to interact with others.
Language also plays a major role in that specialized form of
interpersonal interaction that we call psychotherapy or
psychoanalysis. In that setting we use words to express and
communicate meaning clearly, and through spoken language we help
our patients to organize and modify their experiences of self and
of the world, fostering adaptive change. Like the air we breathe,
when our language serves its function it is transparent to us. We
notice it most when it fails. When it does fail its basic function,
in life and in psychotherapy, it fails to reliably, effectively,
and comfortably help us to connect with others, as we deal with the
world around us. In Language and Connection in Psychotherapy: Words
Matter, Dr. Mary Davis addresses the role of language in our lives,
both internally, in creating psychic structure and regulating
affect, and interpersonally, in facilitating relationships with the
figures that have shaped our development and that inhabit our adult
lives. Using clinical material to illustrate, Davis looks at the
development of language and its role in creating our personalities,
at the life events which can distort our use of language to
interact with others, and the ways that language can lead to
misunderstanding as well as to understanding. Throughout, Language
and Connection in Psychotherapy: Words Matter explores various
facets of the ways in which words matter as well as the times when
words are important but not sufficient to our ability to
communicate interpersonally. Davis suggests that the
psychotherapist is a master in bridging the gap between being and
saying: she can be conceptualized as an "interpreter," one who
turns behavioral language into verbal language, action language
into words, emotions into thoughts, who focuses and uses the
capacity of words to help us connect both with our internal selves
and with others.
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