FROM WHOSE POINT-OF-VIEW - THE NEGLECTED QUESTION IN ANALYTIC LISTENING

The central question which I hope to address is: how do we discover, i n our clinical work, what we had not before even considered, another w ay of thinking about a matter? Drawing upon clinical examples, includi ng a critique of my material, I shall illustrate a mode of listening w hich attempts to Keep clear the delineation of whose point of view one is referring to-patient's or analyst's. In so doing, I shall consider some conceptual, methodological, and epistemological ramifications of this effort in an attempt to demonstrate the potential for deepened i llumination of nuances of the patient's experience-and of our own-whic h may otherwise go unnoted.