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1. INTRODUCTION
10. FAILING VOICE AND BLOCKED SPEECH
10.1 A kink in the link: distress causes tangled communication
10.10 Battos meets his fate and becomes a stutterer: an escalation
10.12 Habit or addiction?
10.13 Alalia scales the stairs out of the pit of doom: a de-escalation.
10.2 The counterfeit victim
10.3 The dystonic syndromes
10.4 Stuttering
10.5 A double motivation conflict.
10.6 The dragon of stuttering: foe becomes friend.
10.7 The iceberg of stuttering: 9/10ths of stuttering is below the surface.
10.8 Avoidance is addictive. The fatal attractor that leads to stuttering.
10.9 The place of stuttering in a life-script.
11. THERAPY AND REEDUCATION
11.1 Health Care in oscillation
11.2 The personality spheres.
11.3 Spheres in the process of voice- and speech production.
11.4 Stages in the rehabilitation of voice- and speech disorders
11.5 Requirements for the therapist
11.6 Processes of change in other contexts
12. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
12.0 Childhood
12.1 Early studies and interests.
12.2 Specialisation.
12.4 Relevance of Behavioural Science for Medicine.
12.5 Prevention: improving resiliency in immune and neural systems.
12.6 Purpose of the book. Hearing is more truthful than seeing
12.7 Theory is the essence of experience; theories improve by being tested
2. WAVES, LONG AND SHORT
2.1 Sounds and bio-oscillations
2.2 Selecting a single voice in a heavily loaded track
2.3 An orchestral score of bio-oscillations.
2.4. Communication is as old as life itself
3. EMBRYOGENESIS AND COGNITION
3.1 Chemical communication between cells. Motion and morphogenesis
3.2 Resonance in a morphogenetic field. Dancing to the chemical beat.
3.3 Chemical oscillators in different contexts.
3.4 The energetic aspect of information: absent in R.Sheldrake's concept.
3.5 Freedom and determination on the level of cells.
3.6 The organism as a cognitive system.
3.7 Synergy
4. EVOLUTION IN THE TIME-SCALES OF AEONS, HOURS, SECONDS
4.1 Dancing to the rhythm of the music
4.2 Cosmic time and experienced time
4.3 Stages of evolution: physical, biologic, cultural.
4.4 Time's windows
4.5 Time as an organiser of matter and mind.
4.6 Evolution, epigenesis, metabolism.
4.7 Chemical oscillation; coupling and networks.
4.8 Biological clocks.
5. DARWINIAN EVOLUTION IN THE IMMUNE AND NERVOUS SYSTEMS
5.1 Knowledge Systems for Adaptation and Defence (SADS).
5.2 A Sphere of Life in an ocean of uncertainties. Synergy guides growth.
5.3 The lymphoid or immune system (LAD): a network of lymphocytes and antibodies.
5.4 Conditions for acquiring biological immunity.
5.5 A lymphoid network for recognition: a summary.
5.6 Concentric organisation of the NAD; rigidity and plasticity.
6. PROGRESSION, REGRESSION
6.1 Involuntary and voluntary behaviour: subsystems of the NAD
6.2 Adaptive systems, slow and fast.
6.3 Meaning is a learned cognitive attribute.
6.4 An ABC of learning
6.5 The regression phenomenon in learning systems.
6.5.1 Regression in the lymphoid system (LAD).
6.5.2 Regression in the central nervous system
6.5.3 Habitual regression in the LAD and NAD: allergy and neurosis
6.5.4 Regression in Speech/Language
6.6 The systems for adaptation and defence shake hands.
7. VARIATION OF HUMAN FORM, FUNCTION AND BEHAVIOUR
7.1 Zones of adaptation and defence.
7.2 The unicellular human: hard to believe but undeniable.
7.3 Specialisation of tissues and organs.
7.4 Varieties of physique: a genetic basis of human diversity.
7.5 Competition and cooperation.
7.6 Varieties of temperament: genetic disposition of personality.
7.7 Interactive properties are a criterium for selection
7.8 Genetic factors and the evolution of society
7.9 Variety of values. A two-way hierarchy of moral judgment.
8. GROWTH ZONES OF THE PERSONALITY. TRAINING OF SOCIAL INTERACTION.
8.1 Structure of the brain and levels of the mind. Zones of adaptation and
8.2 From Identity to Cognition.
8.3 Moral judgment grows in expanding circles.
9. HUMAN INTERACTIONS; THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE
9.1 Early attachment
9.10 Zones of speech-language development.
9.11 Underdeveloped zones: empty lots and ramshackle houses.
9.2 Priming the first communicative skills.
9.2 The non-verbal part of a spoken message.
9.3 No language without chemistry.
9.4 The concentrical organisation of the VAD
9.5 Development = growth + maturation + learning.
9.6 Successive phases in a developing function; a potential is actualised.
9.7 The early environment of the developing brain.
9.8 Performance levels in oral expression.
9.9 Clutterer or not?
About the author
Afscheidscollege 27 januari 1987
APPENDIX
Contents
DE CONCENTRISCHE MENS
DISORDERS OF THE VOICE
GEWELD IN GEZIN VERDIENT DE AANDACHT VAN LOGOPEDISTEN
HABITUEEL MONDADEMEN
Het Damsté-Terpstra Fonds
Prof dr Cornelis Harm WIND 7 nov. 1867 - 7 aug. 1911
Prospectus
Psychogene Afonie en Dysfonie
PUBLICATIONS by the same author
References in Concentric Man
STOTTEREN
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