listening with the third ear: the inner experience of a psychoanalyst

From the dustjacket: The first section of this book, "I am a Stranger Here Myself," contains the most daring two hundred pages written since Freud published his interpretation of dreams. These pages present fragments of an autobiography in which the emotional processes and life of a psychoanalyst are probed with breath-taking acuteness and merciless self-observation. Dr. Reik, having revealed the analytic process, then goes on to discuss a number of cases taken from his thirty-seven years of practice. These intensely interesting personal histories show not only the results obtained by which these results are reached. The interplay of the unconscious of both psychoanalyst and patient in searching for their goal provides a suspense like that felt in reading a detective story. Turning psychoanalysis inside out and presenting it in readable, everyday language, LISTENING WITH THE THIRD EAR provides the answer to the layman's question: "What is psychoanalysis all about?" By presenting the analyst's personal reactions and by analyzing his own mind as he treats the patient, Dr. Reik has written a book that is unique in its field, a book that begins where all other books on the subject leave off.