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04: Guess Who’s Back, Back Again (It’s Freud) feat. Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Importance of Listening to What the Patient Wants

My favorite Freud text is observations on transfer and so for sure for all kinds of reasons um one because it has one of the better jokes in Freud that I really enjoy. Being abstimious as an analyst is necessary for the work to happen but you can't actually enact it, he says. There's something there's an ethical balance that that text that really speaks to the heart of the problems and and and the psychotherapeutic encounter that cannot be forgotten.

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