Analytic Listening in Clinical Dialogue: Basic Assumptions

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Analytic Listening in Clinical Dialogue focuses on the work of four leading clinicians as they assess how their unconscious basic assumptions impact their clinical work. Using the case study of a seven-year-old boy, the authors evaluate a videotaped psychoanalytic first interview and exchange their mutual clinical approaches. Their discussions uncover the way that unconscious basic assumptions arise from the core of one’s personality and act as the pillars that support primary- and secondary-process thinking. These fundamental models of thought and emotion result in convictions which play a key role in the processes of understanding, evaluating, classifying, anticipating and regulating. The authors show how an ‘analytic listening’ approach can also be used to good effect in supervisions and intervisions, as it provides a path out of the domain of ‘being right’ into a space of what is shared as well as what is different. They argue that this method allows an analyst’s own blind spots to be reduced. Translated from the original German, Analytic Listening in Clinical Dialogue will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychologists. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Basic assumptions 2.1 Basic assumptions and the individual 2.2 Basic assumptions and questions of treatment technique 2.3 Basic assumptions and social orders 2.4 Basic assumptions and the group Chapter 3 The interview (Simone, aged seven years and seven months) Chapter 4 Anamnestic data and dates of hospitalisation periods 4.1 Family anamnesis 4.2 Personal anamnesis Chapter 5 Commentaries by the group participants 5.1 Commentary 1 (Dieter Bürgin) 5.1.1 Observations on the use of ‘squiggles’ 5.1.2 Observations on basic assumptions and unconscious fantasies 5.1.3 The interview 5.1.4 Playing with the toy animals 5.1.5 Concluding remarks 5.2 Commentary 2 (Anna Wyler von Ballmoos) 5.2.1 Introductory remarks 5.2.2 On the interview 5.2.3 Squiggles 5.2.4 Playing with the toy animals 5.2.5 Concluding remarks 5.3 Commentary 3 (Kerstin Westhoff) 5.3.1 Introductory remarks 5.3.2 Progress of the sessions 5.3.3 Afterthoughts 5.4 Commentary 4 (Angelika Staehle) 5.4.1 Explicit basic assumptions of the psychoanalytic situation 5.4.2 Implicit basic assumptions 5.4.3 My listening and my perspective on the interview with Simone 5.4.4 Squiggles 5.4.4.1 First squiggle 5.4.4.2 Second squiggle 5.4.4.3 Third squiggle 5.4.4.4 Fourth squiggle 5.4.4.5 Fifth squiggle 5.4.5 Continuation of the story with the toy animals in the room Chapter 6 Discussion and experiences from the group’s working method Chapter 7 Summary Index