Listening to Others

Dr. Salman Akhtar is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College, lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and training and supervising analyst at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. He has published widely in the field of psychoanalysis and psychiatry and has additionally published six volumes of poetry.

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.

• Chapter 1 Listening to the spoken and the unspokenChapter 2 The unending struggle to listenChapter 3 Clinical reflections on empathyChapter 4 Listening and being listened toChapter 5 Intersubjectivity and attunementChapter 6 Listening, dreaming, and sharingChapter 7 Using the therapist's subjective experienceChapter 8 Mother-child interaction as an early prototype of listening