Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement and Envisioning [Paperback]

Acknowledgements. Epigraph. PART I. 1. Introduction: Acts of Psychoanalytic Listening. 2. Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature: Restoring the Analytic Space. 3. Listening to Oneself: One Form of Self-Analysis. PART II. 4. The Clinical Material of To the Lighthouse. 5. Listening for Atmospheres of Emotional Experience. 6. Embodied Analytic Listening. PART III. 7. Re-Listening: Listening for and to Inarticulate Experience---What she was trying to say. 8. After-Listening: In Search of Lost Time in Psychological Space. 9. Listening for Traces Left Behind: Constructing Ernest Jones.

Contemporary psychoanalytic thinking about the interdependence of subjectivity and intersubjectivity has reenvisioned the analytic process, and with it the very nature of creative and engaged psychoanalytic listening. Yet few systematic writings on psychoanalytic listening or technique provide comprehensive instruction that would prepare the analyst for the kind of analytic listening needed to participate imaginatively in this sort of intersubjective experience.Offering a short course in analytic listening, Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process provides a guide for the clinical uses of imaginative literature.

Outside the psychoanalytic literature, extraordinary pieces of imaginative literature exist that provide the kind of experience in analytic listening that can guide clinicians in their work with patients. Certain works of fiction create textured, sensory worlds in which complex characters possessing shifting states of consciousness live within fluid emotional atmospheres. In this book, Fred Griffin demonstrates that by entering the worlds that original writers create in their texts, the psychoanalytic therapist will learn to attend mol#1