RHEOSCOPIC STUDIES OF EXPRESSION: Methodology of Approach
Abstract
EXPRESSIONâAPPROACH LEXINGTON,STRAUS,M. D.,2Ky.In the fall of â949 a laboratory dedicated to the studies of expressive motions was opened at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky. The first tasks were to disentangle the skein of problems,to see ing find results, a theoretical basis, and to developtechniques.it may beNow,fitting,publish-of the mother whether she is friendly or angry, cheerful or sad. Guided by expression, mother and child form in their reciprocal understanding a synkinetic group. Expressive understanding even transcends barriers separating species from species. We can talk to a dog in many languages; he understands all of them, not because he ispolyglot pressive but values because of he responds to These the exfacts intonation.details, to give a general review of the situation. The importance of expressive motions in the practice of everyday life and in medical activities in general can hardly be overrated. Actual knowledge of expression, however,is far from being commensurate. Paradox-ically, everyone pression is atignorant; âAs longin his understanding of exthe same time expert andsaid me, about time:as St. Augustine as no one asksI knowwe and compreexperi-answer; the to an enquirer,It hend encing is through another creature.moment I want to I do not know.â3expression being It as might the