contact with "closed" patient through mimickry

[e.br...@gmail.com]

Some patients are locked up in their own world and to enter in their
life-world and interact with them, the therapist mimics their
gestures.
I've read this long ago but can't find back documents about it, please
some references!

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[Tim McNamara]

In article <SPPM1071025...@psychcentral.com>,
e.br...@gmail.com wrote:

> Some patients are locked up in their own world and to enter in their
> life-world and interact with them, the therapist mimics their
> gestures.
> I've read this long ago but can't find back documents about it, please
> some references!

I think the term you are looking for is "mirroring." NLP (Neuro
Linguistic Programming) makes quite a point of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology)

http://www.renewal.ca/nlp15.htm

Hope this helps.