The Art of Listening

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.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. Fromm's work contains a great deal of clinical reflections of the psychoanalyst.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. 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.Biancoli, Romano. "Individuation in analytic relatedness." Contemporary Psychoanalysis 38, no. 4 (2002): 589-612.

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

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