>In a message dated 97-03-22 05:51:55 EST, Bob Young wrote:
>
><<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.>>
>
>Thanks for the interesting example, and the added dimension.  Do you
>install/remove the device with the timing that you mentioned so as to keep it
>"in the background" of things?   For instance, is the patient aware of your
>use of it?  If so, I'm curious what meanings it has had for him.
>
>Regards,
>
>David Mittelman
It is my intention that he should not know. Nothing in his material
suggests that he is aware.
        This happened once before - prior to rearranging my room. The woman
in question (also on the couch) was whispering in order to draw me closer.
I used the device and told her so. She spoke more loudly.
Bob

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