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From: Anders Lundberg
Date: 10/19/00
Time: 2:17:56 AM
Remote Name: 146.21.116.174
Dear Jamie. Thanks for your comment; made me think a little more, especially regarding the everlasting conflict in giving information; what is clear is never complete, and what is complete is never clear.
Anyway, pictures, drawings, are basically used in my job based upon a traditional cognitive view on reality representation which one can find in the works of Bruner, Piaget and others. Even as adults we revert to pictures (iconic representation) when our words are not sufficient. Every manual, on bicycles, cars, household appliances, software and whatnot reminds you about that. And still you don't really understand the pictures until you have MANUALLY performed the process described (enactive representation). Yes, children are egocentric in solving problems and understanding themselves, and the more fundamental the problem is, the more egocentric they become. Just like adults! In therapy we really are allowed to be egocentric, even in a regressive mode if need be, and we can generally say that a "higher" understanding of the situation of others (that others are disfluent) as well will not occur until a basal egocentricity has been allowed to run its course. Very rarely has information about that most others are disfluent too (or stutter too, which is not even true!) helped a child considerably. The day he/she DISCOVERS it by own observation, the maturity for seeing others, beyond basal egocentricity, is there to give its necessary foundation for the growth of capacity.