Listening to Others

Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Empathy and Attunement

Contributions by Evelyne Schwaber, Sydney Pulver, Jessica Benjamin, Theodore Fallon, Theodore Jacobs Albert Einstein College o, David Sachs, Henri Parens MD, professor of Psychiat Edited by Salman Akhtar professor of psychiatry

Publication date:

06 March 2007

Length of book:

112 pages

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Dimensions:

230x154mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780765705150

This volume addresses the critical psychoanalytic issue of effective listening. While this issue has been discussed widely in the literature, most often the discussions are from the standpoint of technique. Listening to Others is among the first texts to consider the listening process from the so-called 'two-person' perspective—i.e., that which is aligned with intersubjective, interpersonal, and relational theories. The contributors to this volume all are well-known experts in contemporary psychoanalytic theory.

Chapter 1 Listening to the spoken and the unspoken
Chapter 2 The unending struggle to listen
Chapter 3 Clinical reflections on empathy
Chapter 4 Listening and being listened to
Chapter 5 Intersubjectivity and attunement
Chapter 6 Listening, dreaming, and sharing
Chapter 7 Using the therapist's subjective experience
Chapter 8 Mother-child interaction as an early prototype of listening

Here wise and experienced clinicians use moving and candid clinical examples to offer a deep understanding of the profoundly human aspects of the psychoanalytic relationship. Listening to Others now provides the missing half of the "talking cure"—namely, the art of listening. This slim volume is a jewel not to be missed.