Body-language and nonverbal communication

Seeing clients in China

While in China, where I was from, I saw clients at the Shanghai Mental Health Center in both the outpatient and inpatient units. Most of the patients are walk-in patients without scheduled appointments. I did not know who to expect to see before they came in the door. Patients were usually accompanied by their family members who sat with the patients during the visit to provide collateral information. As most patients had severe psychopathologies, besides observation of the patients, I relied heavily on the information on symptoms and medication provided by family members. While on the inpatient ward including a locked unit, I was assigned a few patients with diagnoses ranging…………………

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Chinese language is body-language (6) – an apple is not an apple –

When remembering the experience in Düsseldorf I begin to understand one important difference between the German and Chinese way of writing / painting graphics and letters. We know about the meaning of a letter and a word, independent from writing this letter or word in a proper way. So we do not feel any necessity to write in a proper way, with concentration or full awareness. We know: an apple is an apple. And if we write this word in a readable way it is ok to do so.

To me it seems that this is quite different to ………..

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Dear reader from Huangshan……

….I realize that you often read my blog. Who ever you are and what ever interest you have, I would be pleased if you could comment some of my posts. Or / and pick up some contact to me. I would like to ………

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Let’s think about relationship

Let’s think about being a little girl, a little child and being old and growing down to the earth. These two people, the smart little girl and the old (bowed?) woman represent relationship in so far as the child is aware of the people around her but does not have to be always engaged with these people. The child goes out to his own future and …………

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Three faces – one face

The older you get, the more you’re yourself

I’m convinced about this wisdom of life.

Of course, if you look at these three women on the photo you see different faces. There’s quite a lot of similar expression on the grandma’s face and the daughter’s face concerning the nose, forehead and the upper part of the face. There is less similarity to the granddaughter there. On the other hand there’s ………….

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MAMA-situation

Well language is always also body language. I talked about this already. Remembering Wittgensteins sentence, the German philosopher, language is sounding movement or the sound of movement. And movement is feeling. You know that feeling in English also means emotion.

A lot is written in psychology and psychoanalysis about this. One main concept is the following. I put it into simple sentences, I hope you forgive me for that. 😉

When a child is born it feels ………………….

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language is…..sounding movement…

or the sound of movement.

Sprache ist….Laut (laut) gewordene Bewegung.

Following the German philosopher Wttgemstein this means that language derives from movement. Movement is THE charactersiticum of life. If you are dead you cannot move. And when you can move this brings up feelings. Alweays. All this together he says is language.

So the word as part of the language is only ONE part of language. No more. There is also a life impulse, movement, feeling, expression, someone who is aware odf this andsoon.

Tomorrow I will talk about some psychoanalytical concept which leads to the same view. I will call it the Mama-situation or Mama-scene.

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Zeit der Halluzinationen or time for halluzination

It is a pity that I don´t translate this little statement of my college Simone Pika into English. To be honest I am a bit too lazy today because of the weather. 😉 Sorry for that.  T make it short, she says that we humans often live in the past or the future. Primates live in the here and now!!! And that is often much better and more successful.


Eine besondere Eigenschaft menschlicher Sprache und menschlicher Kognition ist, dass wir uns in unseren Gesprächen und Gedanken vorwiegend im Gestern und im Morgen bewegen. Kleiner Test: Sie sitzen……..

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Primate vocalization, gesture……..

A good friend of mine is an expert in monkey and ape communication. Here are the results of some her studies. It is interesting how important the nonverbal communication is for the social life, for working together and for survival. And there are quite a lot parrellels to human communication. So have a look and get an impression. And enjoy:

“the performance of the language is multimodal, not confined to speech. Review of monkey and ape communication show ………..

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