Clients frequently censor verbal information. One learns early in life that many feelings are not allowed to be expressed openly and need to be repressed. As a result, children learn that self expression is not tolerated and with that type of behavior being repeated, the 'good' child grows up with a lot of unresolved conflicts. Freud described that expression with the term parapraxis. By parapraxis, I understand the occurrence in healthy and normal people of such events as forgetting words and names that are normally familiar to one, forgetting what one intends to do, making slips of the tongue and pen, misleading, misreading, mislaying things and being unable to find them, losing things, making mistakes against one's better knowledge, and certain habitual gestures and movements.
Parapraxes are full blown psychical phenomenon and always have a meaning and an intention.
They serve definite purposes which owing to the prevailing psychological situation, cannot be expressed in any other way. These situations, as a rule, involve a psychical conflict which prevents the underlying intention from finding direct expression and diverts it along indirect paths. Communication through art preceded the development of language. The prehistoric man expressed his ideas through drawings. Those drawings expressed not only his thoughts, but also his emotions.