Why Listening Perspectives In Psychotherapy is a Classic  Stephen Johnson, PhD Listening Perspectives is a classic in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It deserves to be kept alive for a long, long time. First, and most obviously, Listening Perspectives… is a tour de force of scholarship and integration. It is a unifying review of the most important contributions of psychoanalysis beginning […]

Taking Your Laptop Seriously! © Lawrence E. Hedges It is now estimated that a laptop is stolen somewhere every minute of every day. Desktop thefts are also prevalent. Most therapists carry personal as well as professional information stored on their computers— thus risking identity theft as well as confidentiality violations. We have a duty to […]

Eighth Annual Southern California Bioenergetics Conference Terrifying Transferences Workshop Sunday, February 21, 1999 Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D., ABPP   Retreating from Contact and Intimacy There is a force in our lives that pulls us away from intimate relationships.  While this force works differently for each of us, we all know its power.  We feel it […]

The Riddle of the Psychotic Transference Lawrence E. Hedges PhD, PsyD, ABPP Director, The Listening Perspectives Study Center Orange, California lhedges7@gmail.com www.listeningperspectives.com The Riddle of the Psychotic Transference The riddle of the psychotic transference is, “how can we best formulate and analyze transferences emanating from life’s earliest relational experiences?”  Sandor Ferenczi (1931, 1933) first understood […]

The Sense and Nonsense of Boundaries Copyright 2000 Lawrence E. Hedges, Ph.D, ABPP People with a prosecuting mentality who sit on licensing boards and ethics committees have long been seduced by the plaintiff bar into naïve and nonsensical moralizing with regard to the concept of boundaries as applied to the practice of psychotherapy.  Clearly a […]