The making of mind.

CONCLUSIONS: A restorative and generative kind of relatedness is 'natural', the propensity for it being given to us by our biological heritage. Its first form is a game between babies and caregivers, a 'proto-conversation'. Principles derived from this, and related developmental behaviours, guide a form of therapeutic relatedness consisting of an interactive, to-and-fro 'patterning' of verbal 'pictures', or analogues, of the subject's immediate experience. The analogue is the first form of symbol, the use of which is the hallmark of the human. PMID: 28856916 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Australasian Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research