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October 18, 1982. THE STUDY OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION: WITH REFLECTIONS ON ITS RELEVANCE TO THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS. William S. Condon, M.D.
Dr. Condon stated that the recent impetus for his work had grown out of his interest in Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's studies on human intuition at the Institute for Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California. Dr. Fromm-Reichmann organized an interdisciplinary team to examine the types of events which contribute to human communications on a holistic level. She directed special attention to nonverbal cues, such as a clenched fist in a depressed widow describing her anticipation of her son's marriage. Verbal cues not consciously recognized, such as a "squeeze" in the voice as well as changes in pitch and stress associated with various emotions, were also noted. Dr. Condon's research attempts to elucidate those hidden aspects of verbal and nonverbal communications which reveal the underlying, often unconscious feelings of the speaker and the listener.
Dr. Condon described how the body of a speaker moves in precise synchrony with the articulatory structure of his speech, so that they are locked together into