title: Observations on psychoanalytic listening.
abstract: Psychoanalysis has long presented ideal listening as an oscillation between Freud's "evenly suspended attention" and a more focused attention. This paper explores modes of listening as they are manifest in the author's clinical experience. Two modes are evident: a receptivity, mostly out of awareness, which becomes shaped and primed toward specific expectations; and a concurrent, more conscious and directed mode of listening through specific filters. The former is described as "listening alertly from a distance" and the latter as "listening for implications."
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Brenneis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology; D014705:Verbal Behavior