Stuttering: Significant Theories and Therapies by Eugene F. Hahn

Video feedback amplifies critical individual and group processes that have implications for a social theory of the self. The judicious use of video replay facilitates the reworking of identity by (1) inciting the self to “become an object to itself,” thereby triggering new self-reflexive loops of awareness; (2) assisting the self to experience the various perspectives that group members hold toward it, thereby altering its own perspective of itself; (3) enabling the group to become an object to itself, thereby galvanizing a sense of identity and meaning; and (4) allowing clients to view and re-view themselves in a wide range of roles, thereby fostering a multidimensional concept of self. Literature on the use of video in groups is reviewed, and a social theory of the self as explicated by George Herbert Mead is summarized.