Abstract

FAIMBERG, Haydée. "Listening to listening" method. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2010, vol.44, n.3, pp. 33-41. ISSN 0486-641X.

Quite often clinical material is heard from one chosen implicit basic assumption. It is part of our goals to train ourselves in listening not only to recognise the presenter's clinical assumptions with which he listens to his patient, but to recognise our assumptions as well. We use the function of "listening to listening", which H. Faimberg (1981) had initially limited to the psychoanalytical listening in the session. We explore the impact that the theoretical assumptions of each participant (including the presenter) have on the discussion itself. From the gap existing between what the participant thought he was saying and how he was heard we begin to co-create a common language to understand each other in our otherness (and not as a project of working as analysts in a similar way). The sources of misunderstanding may appear and by doing so we begin to recognise the basic assumptions of each participant.

Keywords : listening to listening; misunderstanding; co-creation a language; theoretical basic assumptions; clinical discussion in group; otherness.

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