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One is bound to employ the currency that is in use in the country one is exploring.
In scientific affairs there should be no place for recoiling from novelty.
The history of science is rich in the example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of truth, in touch with each other.
It was Freud(1900) who taught us that listening to ourselves and to our patients is both the essential tool of psychoanalytic1 inquiry and the foundation of psychoanalytic technique. Listening is essential to all that the analyst does: every aspect of the therapeutic process — hearing, associating, imagining, empathizing, hypothesizing, formulating, interpreting, intervening, and validating —begins with and is predicated on listening.
Freud's(1912) recommendations for cultivating “evenly-hovering attention”(pp.111-112) and thus facilitating optimum listening have been unanimously accepted as the cornerstone2 of the listening process in the standard texts on psychoanalytic technique (Fenichel,1941; Glover,1955; Greenson,1967; Sharpe,1930) and the subsequent psychoanalytic examinations of listening and the analyst's state of mind (Baiter, Lothane & Spencer,1980; Bion,1967, 1970; Brown,1977; Chrzanowski,1980; Cohen,1952; Ferenczi,1928, 1930; Fliess,1942; Gray,1973; Grotjahn,1950; Heimann,1977 Khan,1977;