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Everyday Disturbances of Speech

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Language in Psychotherapy

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This chapter concerns one of the extralinguistic dimensions of speech, the “roughness” or “influency” or “normal disturbances” in word-word progression.

Are there not very important things which can only reveal themselves, under certain conditions and at certain times, by quite feeble indications? Sigmund Freud (1963, p. 27)

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Mahl, G.F. (1987). Everyday Disturbances of Speech. In: Russell, R.L. (eds) Language in Psychotherapy. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0496-6_7

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