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Communication with a mentally ill patient

Publication |
2010

Abstract

Communication in its broad definition means telling and accepting informations, but also an observation of another person, in which the observer obtains informations on the observed subject. Communication can be divided into verbal a nonverbal.

The verbal communication has a written or spoken form. Nonverbal communication, sometimes described as the body-languge, is the primary form of communication, and is understandable by itself.

It is not possible to exclude nonverbal communication from the verbal one. Even in the situation if nobody is seing the speaker, he or she accompanies the speach with gestures and mimics.