I know when kids have been sexually abused, sometimes dolls are used to role play the abuse.
And a few years ago I was watching a TV show about a teenage kid with autism. he couldn’t communicate, but using an electronic writing pad he could communicate somehow. I don’t know how common that is among autistic kids, but he seemed to break his communication barrier pretty well.
When being interviewed after his crimes Ted Bundy wouldn’t admit to anything when talking with Hugh Aynesworth but when he got him to talk about events in the third person instead of the first, he opened up.
So if the brain areas that involve communication cannot be used for various reasons (mostly that the trauma involved is so severe that people cannot communicate directly w/o activating the trauma in their own brains, or due to brain trauma due to mental illness) what indirect routes of communication exist to get information and communicate?
Role playing with dolls, asking them for a fictional 3rd party dialogue (instead of a 1st party confession), communication via typing or writing, etc?
I’m guessing that shame/confusion/anxiety/fear are overwhelming when asking someone to communicate traumatic info via a 1st person confession, so alternate ways have been found to get people to communicate painful info (like them being abused, or confessing to a crime, etc) so that the painful emotions aren’t activated.
Is there a book on these alternate communication tools? Is there neuroscience to back it up showing how different brain areas are activated?