Communicative Structures and Psychic Structures: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Communication (The Downstate series of research in psychiatry and psychology)

A nice copy. No writing or highlighting. Clean pages, shows very minimal signs of wear from use. Shipped with care in a bubble mailer. Feel free to inquire for photos or more details. Hand inspected item, complete, with minimal wear, guaranteed to pay or your money back. --- Edited by Norbert Freedman, with Stanley Grand, who co-wrote the opening prologue, "A Gesture Toward a Psychoanalytic Theory of Communication." The volume collects papers by clinicians and researchers on how speech, gesture and nonverbal behavior relate to psychic organization. Freedman's chapter, "Hands, Words, and Mind," looks at how body movements during discourse become structured and how this connects with the capacity for verbal representation. Grand writes on hand movements during speech as self-stimulation in psychopathology, sensory deficit and bilingualism. Other chapters cover the development of conversational behavior, a comparative psychopathology approach to language, subliminal research and its implications for psychoanalytic technique, body movement during psychoanalysis, engagement and disengagement in early object experience, and concomitant change in a psychotherapy, along with discussions of the papers.…