Listening to Others: Developmental and Clinical Aspects of Empathy and Attunement (Margaret S. Mahler)

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. The 'listening cure': an overview / Salman Akhtar The unending struggle to listen: locating oneself within the other / Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber 'Getting it' and knowing what to do when one does not 'get it': discussion of Schwaber's chapter "The unending struggle to listen: locating oneself within the other" / Sydney E. Pulver Listening together: intersubjective aspects of the analytic process of losing and restoring recognition / Jessica Benjamin Listening to the child within: discussion of Benjamin's chapter "Listening together: intersubjective aspects of the analytic process of losing and restoring recognition" / Theodore Fallon Listening, dreaming, sharing: on the uses of the analyst's inner experiences / Theodore J. Jacobs Listening, reading, and the 'in-between' space: discussion of Jacobs's chapter "Listening, dreaming, sharing: on the uses of the analyst's inner experiences" / David M. Sachs Relatedness and listening: a concluding commentary / M. Hossein Etezady

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.

Addresses the critical psychoanalytic issue of effective listening. This work considers the listening process from the so-called two-person perspective - that is, that which is aligned with intersubjective, interpersonal, and relational theories.