Zen and the Art of Stuttering Therapy

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Gallwey

From: Jonathan Bashor
Date: 10/2/02
Time: 8:35:08 AM
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Comments

Nice article ! Thank you !

I've read Gallwey's book many times looking for applications to stuttering. Here is what I came up with, and it confirms my own experience. He talks about where to focus. I focus on the act of communication, what I'm saying. When my focus slips, and it does, back to how I'm communicating, I'm in trouble. There is a paradox here: you can't deliberately put your focus back where you want it. It's got to just "happen".

I like Gallwey's Self I and Self II. I've renamed these to the Think-er and the Do-er. If the Think-er can stay out of the Do-er's way, things work better. Of course, there is a complmentary relationship between them, but the Think-er usually wants to run everything. My problem with speech therapies has been that I believe they tend to over-emphasize the Think-er, resulting in trying to micro-manage the speech process.


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