LISTENING WITH THE THIRD EAR : The Inner Experience of a Psychoanalyst

New York, NY: Farrar Straus & Co, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/NEW & Bright. Hardcover/Good; sound w/discoloration to covers verso, wear to all leading edges & surfaces, and loss to upper spine edge. DJ/None. PO name to fEP. A discourse on non-verbal communication. Austrian-born psychoanalyst Theodor Reik (1888 - 1969), one of Freud's first students, and pioneer of lay analysis in the U.S., examines how subtle nuances of interpersonal communication are expressed & perceived at unconscious levels which can only be decipherable by analysts looking inwards and listening with the third ear (term borrowed from Nietzsche). Volume contains numerous clinical examples detailing subtle, influencial clues expressed in the patient's patterns of behaviors such as dress, peculiarities in gestures, flickering of eyes, and even the warmth, clamminess, roughness or smoothness of the skin conveyed in shaking of the hand ---- all to which we respond to unconsciously yet influences our opinions. Since minute movements speak as powerfully as words, one needs to turn attention inward. 514 pgs, 46 chapters in4 parts: Part I, "I am a Stranger Here Myself"; II, The Workshop; III, Two-Way Street; and IV, The Language of the Soul, followed by "Leave-Taking". Strong copy w/tired covers.