Verbalisation (or verbalization, see
spelling differences
Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and Americ ...
) is a process by which different psychological events in an individual are made in verbal form, i.e. described "in their own words". According to psychoanalytic concepts, only when
clients manage to verbalise their own
experience
Experience refers to Consciousness, conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience i ...
s or problems is it possible to understand subconscious
phenomena
A phenomenon ( phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable Event (philosophy), event. The term came into its modern Philosophy, philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be ...
, i.e. alterations in personality, which leads to improvement.
[Note: This article, in whole, or in part, has been originally taken from the Ivan Vidanovic's book Dictionary of Social Work (''Rečnik socijalnog rada'') with the author's permission.]
References
Child development
Psychoanalytic theory
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