The Art of Listening
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| Author | Erich Fromm |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Psychology |
| Publisher | Constable & Robinson |
Publication date | 1994 |
| Publication place | United States |
| 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]
