Matching, attunement and the psychoanalytic dialogue 1

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Author	Rayner, Eric Sutton, Sarah
Copyright Year	2019
Description	This chapter discusses the possible importance of the analyst's pre-verbal communications and their relation to his or her verbal conceptualization, aiming to contribute to the debate by investigating two concepts from infancy research and their application to the analytic dialogue. It deals with the importance of matching, especially in infantile amodal perception. The chapter attempts to portray some possible attunements in analysis by means of doggerel; aiming to illustrate the existence of underlying analytic rhythms over time. It suggests that mother-infant attunement might be a model for aspects of the analytic process. Amodality is an abstraction and seems likely to be a root of higher abstract thought processes. It may thus be needed in the future armoury of the psychologist or psychoanalyst concerned with the theory of thinking. Poetry and music have been hitherto been largely missing from psychoanalytic discourse, and preverbal gesture and intonation has tended to remain unstudied and ill-conceptualized. Book Name: Psychoanalysis and other Matters
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Ending Page	91
Page Count	15
Starting Page	77
DOI	10.4324/9781351025980-7
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2019-07-05
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Psychoanalysis and other Matters Psychoanalysis Psychology Attunement Verbal Psychoanalytic Amodality Dialogue Conceptualized Analytic Process
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter