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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812094903321

Autore

Akhtar Salman <1946 July 31->

Titolo

Psychoanalytic listening : methods, limits, and innovations / / by Salman Akhtar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2018]

©2012

ISBN

0-429-91796-1

0-429-90373-1

0-429-47896-8

1-283-60991-6

9786613922366

1-78241-031-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Listening

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Four kinds of analytic listening; CHAPTER TWO Listening to silence; CHAPTER THREE Listening to actions; CHAPTER FOUR Listening to oneself; CHAPTER FIVE Listening poorly; CHAPTER SIX Refusing to listen; CHAPTER SEVEN Listening in non-clinical situations; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

'Joseph Breuer's celebrated patient, Anna O., designated psychoanalysis to be a "talking cure". She was correct insofar as psychoanalysis does place verbal exchange at the center stage. However, the focus upon the patient's and therapist's speaking activities diverted attention from how the two parties listen to each other. Psychoanalysis is a listening and talking cure. Both elements are integral to clinical work. Listening with no talking can only go so far. Talking without listening can mislead and harm. And yet, the listening end of the equation has received short shrift in analytic literature. This book aims to rectify this problem by focusing upon analytic listening. Taking Freud's early description of



how an analyst ought to listen as its starting point, the book traverses considerable historical, theoretical, and clinical territory. The ground covered ranges from diverse methods of listening through the informative potential of the countertransference to the outer limits of our customary attitude where psychoanalytic listening no longer helps and might even be contraindicated.'- Salmon Akhtar, from his Introduction.