Author: Langs, Robert.
Title: The listening process.
Description: New York : Jason Aronson, c1978. First edition. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. xix,661 pp. Inscribed by the author for Elsje E. Kooij-Scheen, sept. 1979. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Robert Joseph Langs (1928-2014) was a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyist, the author, co-author, and editor of more than forty books on psychotherapy and human psychology. Over the course of more than fifty years, Langs developed a revised version of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, currently known as the 'adaptive paradigm'. In particular, this work The Listening Process garnered high praise for articulating a proper listening and validating process for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, based on listening to derivative communications, something assumed but not as fully developed in the tradition as in Langs' work. Concerning the lack of developed technique for listening to unconscious derivative communications, one reviewer said that Langs' book attempts to rectify these problems and in doing so,[Langs] identifies every meaningful component of the listening process, explores its basic dimensions, analyzes the intricacies of manifest and latent content of both client and therapist, warns of the dangers of countertransference-based influences, and clearly elucidates the psychoanalytic basis of the listening process. ISBN 9780876684313.

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