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Perceptual Distortion as an Etiological Agent

MARY A. SARVIS, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1962;6(2):157-162.

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Man has 3 major methods or avenues by means of which he appraises his world, evaluates events and their significance to him, defends himself against noxious forces, and integrates data so that they become part of his ongoing experience.

1. The first of these, and the one to be discussed in this paper, is perceptual: what one sees, hears, feels, is informed of by kinesthetic cues and those from bodily organs, etc.

2. Language and thinking, the symbolic processes, comprise the second major method of understanding and ordering phenomena.

3. The more obscure processes discussed as empathy and intuition may comprise a third method or may be a combination of the other 2 in varying degrees, as in the rapid perception of nonverbal cues.

In the ordinary course of human development, once symbolization has begun to occur, perceptual phenomena tend to be interpreted or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BERKELEY, CALIF.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 17, 1961.

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