Most problems arising in the treatment of patients with chronic disorders are linked to motivation. Can a patient be stimulated, over time, to permanently modify his behaviours? If so, how?
Theodor Reik (1888-1969), pupil and friend of Freud, is one of the greats of contemporary psychoanalysis. His Listening with the Third Ear, never translated into Italian, is a legendary twentieth-century work. This study by Duccio Sacchi presents, once again, the key points of Reikian thought, which heralds the most modern therapeutic outlooks; at the same time it illustrates, through an emblematic historical example, the links between the practice of psychoanalytical therapy and the teaching of psychoanalysis.