Listening for a Lifetime

""...Dr. Joseph shares aphorisms and compelling therapeutic vignettes gained from years of professional practice, successfully blending theory, fresh insight, and practical advice for students and experienced practitioners alike."" -Loring J. Ingraham, PhD, director, Professional Psychology Program, professor of clinical psychology, The George Washington University ""Drawing on his own lifetime of listening, [he] Dr. Joseph captures psychoanalytic therapy as an intimate, respectful effort on the part of both patient and therapist to explore, understand, and relieve the patient's suffering."" -Harriet L. Wolfe, MD, president, International Psychoanalytical Association ""[It] Listening for a Lifetime will be a treasured volume that psychotherapists from all levels of experience will enjoy, benefit from, and pass on to their own trainees."" -Rosemary H. Balsam, MD, associate professor of psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine; training and supervising psychoanalyst, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis; editor of Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis (Routledge); Sigourney Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Achievement, 2018 ""While Dr. Joseph's lessons and anecdotes largely align with psychoanalytic orthodoxy, he also deviates at times from classic dogma, offering advice on subjects that challenge therapists-such as when to step out from behind the invisible curtain, when to offer advice, and how to deal with difficult patients..."" -Daniel R. Weinberger, MD, director and CEO, Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Maltz Research Laboratories; professor of psychiatry, neurology, neuroscience, and genetic medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine