Conference paper
WORDS THAT HEAL
Maria Grazia Spurio
; Mind and Greatness Academy, Bambini dello Yucatan, Un ‘viaggio’ nel viaggio, Rome, Italy
Abstract
The value of words in the healing process runs constant to the path of therapeutic treatment, the net of exchanges and
relationships between brain chemistry and the right words in order to heal is subtle and intricate. Psychotherapy, a treatment with
words, is shown to be a treatment that directly affects the brain and that is able to change it stably, even in its anatomical structure
and function. According to Kandel (1999), a leading living scientist and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology, American
neurologist and psychiatrist, psychotherapy is a real cure, a biological treatment, as it produces behavioral changes through new
words and new experiences.
The article offers a brief overview of the use of the fantasy of argument, since the time of the classical rethoric of the sophists up
to the new rethoric, to illustrate how the structure of the speech, and the dialectic ability of opposing different thoughts, closely
resembles the way of thinking.
Consequently the choice of words can be considered an instrument of great impact that is inserted in the stream of thoughts that
determines the attitude of a person, and therefore, his/her actions. This happens whenever you communicate voluntarily, and not
simply when interacting.
The right choice of words remains a turning point in all of our relationships, not only in therapeutic situations, but in every other
social relationship in life, family or friends.
Keywords
words that heal; dysfunctional; relationship; therapeutic
Hrčak ID:
264445
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Publication date:
8.9.2015.
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