The sense of Self and Other is essential for the child`s development. The child needs the internal capacity, opportunity and the integrative ability and the existence of a parallel, complementary process that must occur with the Core Other. This includes an active awareness of an organized experience of Self with Other. If this experience does not succeed, the child develops a deep unconscious shame that grips the entire person. Psychotherapist has to face this and to also respond. He should offer an existencial verbal and nonverbal resonance at the same time. This helps to establish and to bodily ground the Core Self as Daniel Stern named it in the therapy relationship.
Ulrich Sollmann
. Body, Touch and Shame: Working with the Core-Self as an Ethical Challenge in Therapy[J]. Psychological Communications, 2020
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DOI: 10.12100/j.issn.2096-5494.220042
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