The Art of Listening explained

The Art of Listening
Author:	Erich Fromm
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Subject:	Psychology
Publisher:	Constable & Robinson
Pub Date:	1994
Pages:	204
Isbn:	9780094738904

The Art of Listening is a 1994 book on psychology by the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm. In the work, Fromm elucidates his therapeutic method of dealing with the psychological sufferings of people in contemporary society.^[1] Fromm's work contains a great deal of clinical reflections of the psychoanalyst.^[2] In The Art of Listening, Fromm studies the communication between analyst and analysand in which the analyst offers himself as a human being specially trained in the "art of listening." The art of therapy is the art of listening.^[3]

In The Art of Listening, Fromm suggests that a person's character orientation results from socialization into shared psychic attitudes of a particular society.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Hoffmann, Klaus, and Norman Elrod. "Frieda Fromm-Reichmann: On Her Contribution to Psychoanalytic and Psychiatric Theory, With a Note on Erich Fromm's Estimate of Her Work in the USA." International Forum of Psychoanalysis, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 13-18. Taylor & Francis Group, 1999.
2. Biancoli, Romano. "Questions of technique following the psychoanalytic perspective of Erich Fromm." Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry 34, no. 3 (2006): 489-504.
3. Biancoli, Romano. "Individuation in analytic relatedness." Contemporary Psychoanalysis 38, no. 4 (2002): 589-612.
4. Tulloch, Lynley. "Fromm's Humanism and Child Poverty: Neoliberal construction of the ‘have-not’." Open Review of Educational Research 2, no. 1 (2015): 94-104.