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Unintegrated States and the Process of Integration: A New Formulation
Author(s) -
Reeves Christopher
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1993.tb01242.x
Subject(s) - attunement , demise , psychology , process (computing) , cognitive science , epistemology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , developmental psychology , philosophy , computer science , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , political science , law , operating system
SUMMARY. The paper sets out a new approach to identifying stages of early child development leading up to the acquisition of an integrated sense of self. The model derives from linguistics rather than biology, in particular from the application of concepts of case relationships found in inflected languages. The author postulates a correlation between case relationships and developmental stages, and argues that the gradual demise of inflected language forms may have contributed to our lack of attunement as adults to the psychological processes and experiences of infancy. The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there. L P Hartley The Go‐Between (1953)