Abstract
The content of this paper is organized to include (a) the need and rationale to study kinesics of affective instability, (b) the description of the phenomenon of affective instability, (c) the role of kinesics in the overall process of communication, (d) a descriptive analysis of three cases of affective instability, and (e) a few concluding comments related to future directions of research and intervention. Some of the important ideas discussed are: (1) Each participant, during social interaction, contributes to the communicative act within which affective meanings are attached; (2) All nonverbal or kinesic acts have message values for encoding and/or decoding, which makes affective aspects integral parts of all communication; (3) In severe cases of affective instability, where kinesics is the primary mode of expression and little or no verbal expressive language is available, to comprehend and infer the intention of the participant is a very complex process. Meaning may get attached to irrelevant kinesics; the more relevant and significant acts may escape notice resulting in extremely erroneous conclusions; (4) Communication is the sum total of a series of interactional feedback loops of verbal and kinesic acts: (5) Each interactional feedback loop can be isolated as a unit or a frame for the systematic analysis of communication patterns.
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