10/8/2023 0 Comments Listening books![]() Written by a psychoanalyst and a violin maker, Uneasy Listening is a dialogue between two very different kinds of professional listener: the former working with speech, the latter with musical instruments. What makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well - patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of moral judgement - but is it really so simple? Is it a skill one can easily learn or more of a quirk or talent? And why do some people seem to be so much better at it than others? It made me laugh often, and made me fascinated anew by the weird and wonderful thing that is the act of listening to another's speech. It's governed by a playfulness and irreverence that sit together beautifully with its probing seriousness. ![]() ' Uneasy Listening is a delight a lively, enlivening, and moving exploration of what it is to listen. Once we listen to our listening, as Grose and Young show, extraordinary things begin to happen.' Adam Phillips ' A remarkable book about a strangely overlooked subject. Available to preorder - this title is due to release in June 2023.Īlso available on Apple Books and Kindle Store.
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