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Integrated Child & Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (ICAPP)
2020-21, 1st Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Kelly Lippman, LMHC

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September 28, 2020 — Listening and communicating – 1

[52 pages]

Listening to unconscious communication

McWilliams gives an overview of what it means to listen and talk as clinicians. Schwaber offers some common examples of how we all fall short of this at times. She suggests that being aware of this can help us listen anew.

In the Schwaber article, read pages 789-798. (Stop before “A Longer Example: Mr. A”.)

McWilliams, N. (2004). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. New York: The Guilford Press. pp132-142.

McWilliams, N. (1999). Psychoanalytic Case Formulation. New York: The Guilford Press. pp29-47.

Schwaber, E.A. (2005). The Struggle to Listen: Continuing Reflections, Lingering Paradoxes, and Some Thoughts on Recovery of Memory. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 53(3):789-810.