Maria Grazia Spurio
The considerations argued in this article start from the valuable healing that words can express well, that pass through the issues of communication, the use of words that heal in psychotherapy, to get to their use in clinical practice. Thanks to the music of the words patients understand their discomfort, and become able to choose new words to redefine, re talk about and find a new personal "sound of healing". The plot of exchanges and relationships between brain chemistry and the right words to heal is subtle and intricate. The same use of language is metaphor from another metaphor. The sensory experience of each individual, in fact, is not objective reality, but an elaboration of it, a map of reality. On this basis people choose the words that best represent it.Psychotherapy, the talking cure, has proved to be a treatment that directly affects the brain and is able to change it permanently, arriving to interest the anatomical structure and function. Caring healing is not only alleviating or eliminating pain, but also trying to tell and share. When the patient tells a pain or a loss, by choosing the right words to do so, it seems everything may become more bearable. The passions aroused by well-chosen words would then be the main way to go to achieve a tuning interior, the whole human capacity to play together all the parts of which we are made.
