TA for Learners - 00.04 TA Stroke Theory
TA for Learners 00.04 TA Stroke Theory (This Blog is a Chapter in 'My Little TA Book') List of Contents Introducing Stroke Theory Stimulus hunger is the most fundamental of the six psychological hungers. Stimulus hunger needs are met through the agency of strokes. We smile and look at each othe r. In the process we touch each other symbolically. We listen to each other and thus get our presence acknowledged. The commodity used to do all this is stroke. Stroke represents an infant's need for touch. Rene Spitz an Austrian born, American Psychoanalyst found that physical, maternal and emotional deprivation in infancy results in severe neurological and emotional damage. He called the condition anaclytic depression. Victor, a ‘feral child’ resembling a human was captured in Aveyron Forest in Southern France in 1797. His retarded psychological, emotional and social development was severely affected because of absence of human contact and lack of physic...