Verbalisation (or verbalization, see
spelling differences) is a process by which different psychological events in an individual are made in verbal form, i.e. described "in their own words". According to psychoanalytic concepts, only when
clients manage to verbalise their own
experience
Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these conscious processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involv ...
s or problems is it possible to understand subconscious
phenomena
A phenomenon ( : phenomena) is an observable event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be directly observed. Kant was heavily influenced by Gottfried W ...
, i.e. alterations in personality, which leads to improvement.
[Note: This article, in whole, or in part, has been originally taken from the Ivan Vidanovic's book Dictionary of Social Work (''Rečnik socijalnog rada'') with the author's permission.]
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