title: "The noise monitor": a developmental perspective on verbal and nonverbal meaning-making in psychoanalysis.
abstract: This paper discusses a contribution of developmental theory to the psychoanalytic concept of "the talking cure." The developmental theory presented is the dyadic expansion of consciousness model (Tronick 2007), a model consistent with the principles of nonlinear systems theory. The concept of "polysemic bundles" as a way of understanding the multiple simultaneous meaning-making processes occurring in dyadic communication is introduced. The theoretical discussion--focused primarily on the analysis of children--is illustrated with descriptions of videotaped sequences from the first session in the analysis of a five-year-old boy. The relevance of these insights to the analytic treatment of adults is then considered.
authors: Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA. aharrisonmd@comcast.net
authors: Alexandra M
authors: AM
authors: Harrison
authors: Ed
authors: E
authors: Tronick
mesh_terms: D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy