COMMUNICATION CYCLE

A completed communication, including origination of the communication, receipt of the communication, and answer or acknowledgment of the communication. A communication cycle consists of just cause, distance, effect, with intention, attention, duplication and understanding.

the action of a communication being sent and received. Example Joe originates a communication addressed to Bill. Bill then receives Joe's communication and sends back an answer or acknowledgment, thus ending the cycle. See, it depended upon the communication cycle of the analyst whether it was good or bad, not on Freud's theory. -A Review of Study (22 Sept. 64) an idea, concept or message proceeding from a cause-point to receipt-point. The formula for any cycle of communication in its basic form is cause-distance-effect.

1. a cycle of communication and two-way communication are actually two different things. A cycle of communication is not a two-way communication in its entirety. In a cycle of communication we have Joe as the originator of a communication addressed to Bill. We find Bill receiving it and then Bill originating an answer or acknowledgement back to Joe and thus ends the cycle. (Dn 55.!, p. 82)2. consists of just cause, distance, effect with intention, attention, duplication and understanding. (HCOB 23 May 1971R IV) Abbr. comm cycle.