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It might seem a matter to be taken for granted; of course, analysts listen to their patients. Far from being so, listening analytically is an essential skill that may take the analyst years to learn and is a skill that would seem to be unteachable. Salman Akhtar has taken up the challenge and demonstrates, in this masterful volume, how complex and multifaceted is this seemingly simple act. He reveals with brilliant clarity the many modes in which the analyst may listen to his patient and listen to himself while with his patient, and he provides the student a theoretical and practical base from which to learn to listen 'like an analyst'. --Herbert J. Schlessinger, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst In this slim but remarkable volume, Salman Akhtar has recast psychoanalysis, the renowned 'talking cure', as essentially a 'listening cure'. Like a virtuoso musician, he guides us to better discern the sounds and silences of the analytic hour. His book is replete with experience-near vignettes and contains numerous pearls of clinical wisdom. It is bound to become another classic in the Akhtar tradition! --Ira Brenner, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst

""In this slim but remarkable volume, Salman Akhtar has recast psychoanalysis, the renowned 'talking cure', as essentially a 'listening cure'. Like a virtuoso musician, he guides us to better discern the sounds and silences of the analytic hour. His book is replete with experience-near vignettes and contains numerous pearls of clinical wisdom. It is bound to become another classic in the Akhtar tradition!""--Ira Brenner, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst ""It might seem a matter to be taken for granted; of course, analysts listen to their patients. Far from being so, listening analytically is an essential skill that may take the analyst years to learn and is a skill that would seem to be unteachable. Salman Akhtar has taken up the challenge and demonstrates, in this masterful volume, how complex and multifaceted is this seemingly simple act. He reveals with brilliant clarity the many modes in which the analyst may listen to his patient and listen to himself while with his patient, and he provides the student a theoretical and practical base from which to learn to listen 'like an analyst'.""--Herbert J. Schlessinger, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst

In this slim but remarkable volume, Salman Akhtar has recast psychoanalysis, the renowned 'talking cure', as essentially a 'listening cure'. Like a virtuoso musician, he guides us to better discern the sounds and silences of the analytic hour. His book is replete with experience-near vignettes and contains numerous pearls of clinical wisdom. It is bound to become another classic in the Akhtar tradition! --Ira Brenner, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst It might seem a matter to be taken for granted; of course, analysts listen to their patients. Far from being so, listening analytically is an essential skill that may take the analyst years to learn and is a skill that would seem to be unteachable. Salman Akhtar has taken up the challenge and demonstrates, in this masterful volume, how complex and multifaceted is this seemingly simple act. He reveals with brilliant clarity the many modes in which the analyst may listen to his patient and listen to himself while with his patient, and he provides the student a theoretical and practical base from which to learn to listen 'like an analyst'. --Herbert J. Schlessinger, Ph.D., Training and Supervising Analyst

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