THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION, BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND EMPATHY
THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION, BETWEEN PERCEPTION AND EMPATHY

Summary/Abstract: In the interdisciplinary field of communication, beyond the strictly psychological mechanism of the communication situation, as an inter-human phenomenon, can no longer be reduced to the behavioral scheme Stimulus → Response. The classical definition of communication, as human interaction through messages, is perceived as obsolete, both by the theoreticians of the school-process of communication and by those of the semiotic school, for which the importance of meaning moves from the transmitter to the interaction of the message with the receiver: the empathy is not only on communication-as-process, but on communication-generating-of-significance. In analytical treatment, the analyst/ analyzed interaction relies mainly on the method of free associations, therefore, on raw verbal material, as the unconscious manifests, according to Lacan's fundamental thesis, after which "the unconscious is structured as a language. From the more general perspective of communication within any complementary, psychotherapeutic relationship, the essence of this interpersonal communication technique is empathy, as a non-directive attitude of understanding the Other.

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