Short description:
Listening Perspectives in Psychotherapy presents the
major new developments in psychodynamic theory and technique. It
provides a systematic integration of Freudian ideas with the contemporary
contributions of ego psychology and the innovative work of such writers
as Jacobson, Kernberg, Langs, Mahler, Masterson, Sandler and others.
Hedges shows how clinical awareness can be expanded and enhanced as a
result of using empathic listening perspectives. He holds forth
new possibilities for treating more seriously disorganized persons than
had been believed possible with previously available concepts and techniques.
Hedges divides the listening perspectives into four groups depending on
the type of patient with which they are most effective.
"In studying the Listening Perspectives of therapists, the author has identified himself with the notion that one must sometimes change the listening stance and, of course, also the interpreting, the responding stance. The students and the colleagues who will read this volume will find that their ways of listening will deepen, and their way of responding will be improved."
—Rudolph Ekstein, Ph.D.
From the Foreword