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MPC Announcements


(3/7/2008) - Next Meeting - May 18, 2008

Learning from Experience
The development of a group-based, self-study process along Tavistock lines
to understand and possibly to influence the way that MPC functions. more



 (11/25/2007) - SAVE THE DATE - May 18, 2008

New Member/New Candidate Luncheon
Reserve the date:  May 18, 2008
immediately following the meeting at University Club in East Lansing.


 
Current Discussion Paper: Four Modes of Listening in Psychotherapy
Author: David B. Klein, Ph.D.      Click here to read the full version.

"FOUR MODES OF LISTENING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY

David B. Klein, Ph.D.



As our patients speak, how do we listen? For what are we listening? These are important questions, for our primary activity in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is listening to the patient. We probably spend more time listening than performing any other therapeutic function. More important than the amount of time spent, however, is the fact that our spoken interventions, which are of undisputed import, in many ways flow from our listening. And our formulations, which often are created outside the sessions and constitute our overarching understanding of the patient, are also based on what we have heard as list..."