title: Sensing, feeling, thinking. A development model for therapy and rehabilitation.
abstract: 1. Holding the view that the whole is more than the sum of its parts opens up the possibility of integrating psychic and physical peculiarities. 2. Under the preeminence of wholeness, therapeutic methods are not exhausted in a one-sided promotion of intellectual and bodily functions. 3. By sensitizing and differentiating the sensory perception, the direct sensing experience is deepened, broadened and enriched. 4. If the physically sensed is recalled, feelings develop and grow deeper via imagery ideas. 5. It is only when the sensed physicalness and felt imagery are verbalized that speech and thought are in the true sense of word lively, not representing a set, stereotyped pattern. 6. If that which is possible can be developed and integrated, than that which is peculiar loses some of its importance, thus no longer standing for the whole but rather becoming part of the whole.
authors.affiliation: Interfakultäres Institut für Sonder- und Heilpädagogik, Universität Wien.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Reinelt
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gerber
mesh_terms: D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012046:Rehabilitation; D012677:Sensation; D013850:Thinking