Alvarez, Anne (2021) The Therapist’s Voice: Discussion of “Expressivity and Transformation through Language in Work with Serious Disorder”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, 31 (6). pp. 664-667. ISSN Print 1048-1885; Online 1940-9222

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Abstract

Director points out that language has been somewhat sidelined by the modern emphasis on the importance of procedural non-verbal encounters. She recounts some clearly life-saving words she uttered to a very despairing patient. The review cites several literary critics commenting on the arousing, even exciting, effect of the inner rhythms contained in great poetry: the reviewer suggests that a related effect on the therapist’s voice may have added power and much-needed strength to the words themselves in this clinical situation.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Communication, Language, Mental Disorders
Subjects:	Communication (incl. disorders of) > Language Disabilities & Disorders (mental & physical) > Mental Disorders
Department/People:	Children, Young Adult and Family Services
URI:	https://repository.tavistockandportman.ac.uk/id/eprint/2565

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