There is another dimension. What if the therapist is partly deaf? I am. My
first solution was to rearrange my consulting room so that the patient was
next to the good ear. Then I got a hearing aid, but I couldn't get along
with it. My current solution is to use a cheap 'whispa' device I ordered
from a newspaper catalogue with my patient who speaks so softly that I
cannot hear him. I tired of asking him to speak up and am sure he wants me
near like a parent being very attentive to a baby. His mother kept sending
him off to a children's home, and when he was older, she was out at work
when he got home from scholl. He never met his father.
        He is on the couch. I put the devide in my ears after he lies down
and remove it just before the end of the session. Seems to work ok. I
interpret his level of speaking from time to time.

Bob Young

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9RQ, Eng. tel.+44 171 607 8306  fax.+44 171 609 4837 Professor of
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic Studies, Centre for Psychotherapeutic
Studies, University of  Sheffield. Home page and writings:
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