Listening with the Third Ear:

The Inner Experience of a Psychoanalyst

Theodor Reik

• Publisher: Patavium Publishing
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9781805232971
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

A discourse on non-verbal communication. Austrian-born psychoanalyst Theodor Reik (1888 - 1969), one of Freud's first students, and pioneer of lay analysis in the U.S., examines how subtle nuances of interpersonal communication are expressed & perceived at unconscious levels which can only be decipherable by analysts looking inwards and listening with the third ear (term borrowed from Nietzsche). This volume contains numerous clinical examples detailing subtle, influential clues expressed in the patient's patterns of behaviors such as dress, peculiarities in gestures, flickering of eyes, and even the warmth, clamminess, roughness or smoothness of the skin conveyed in shaking of the hand ---- all to which we respond to unconsciously yet influences our opinions. Since minute movements speak as powerfully as words, one needs to turn attention inward.…46 chapters in 4 parts: Part I, "I am a Stranger Here Myself"; II, The Workshop; III, Two-Way Street; and IV, The Language of the Soul, followed by "Leave-Taking".-Print ed.

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• Introduction
• PART ONE — “I AM A STRANGER HERE MYSELF”
• PART TWO — THE WORKSHOP
• PART THREE — TWO-WAY STREET
• PART FOUR — THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL
• Leave-Taking