Concerning the Nature of Communication (INSCRIBED)
Utica NY: State Hospitals Press, 1953. Offprint. INSCRIBED on front cover "Compliments of the author." From the library of Dr. Friedy Heisler; Drs. Heisler and Berne both practiced on the Monterey Peninsula. Octavo; 14pp. A Very Good copy with edge browning in grey stapled wrappers. Item #23457
'Reprinted from the Psychiatric Quarterly Vol. 27, pages 185-198, April 1953. From Sage Journal: "This article focuses on the ideas Eric Berne (1953) put forward in his essay “Concerning the Nature of Communication.” The author shows how starting from cybernetics, Berne developed with great ingenuity concepts such as the value of noise, the construction of the communication context, and the importance of the hidden message. She illustrates how Berne anticipated the work of Jakobson and the Palo Alto School in moving from the communication context to the communication relationship, which would become the basis of future theories of interpersonal communication. Berne’s suggestion that a message contains intentionality and desirability predated Jakobson’s development of the concept of the function of the message and, in particular, the phatic function."
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