Meeting the Patient: Ideals and Realities

摘要: Animal signals, whether vocal or visual, are largely innate, and so there can be no misunderstanding about their meaning. The flattening of a dog’s ears means fear, the curl his lip implies aggression. If Gelada monkey lifts eyebrows to reveal yellow stripe, he is under threat. signals limited inflexible, but they precise unlikely misconstrued (Ardrey 1970). human animal often unaware that actions, gestures expressions telling own clear story — outward inner attitudes tensions. Man concentrates hard on words seems forget coded messages from body either contradicting confirming mouth. It as if two languages being spoken simultaneously: familiar verbal transmissions subconscious which visible rather than audible. Interpretation gestures, tones, postures behaviour like translating foreign language (the subconscious) into common language.