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Michael Parsons is a Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and member of the French Psychoanalytic Association. Initially trained as a psychiatrist, he qualified as a psychoanalyst in 1982 and as a training analyst in 1990.
His work is characterized by his “bringing together” wide ranging disciplines which give his work an intellectual weight, lightly worn. Central to his clinical theory is his focus on listening.
He writes about what he calls the analyst’s ‘internal setting’ and the centrality of the capacity to listen.
In ‘Living Psychoanalysis’ (Parsons 2014) he elaborated all the complexity of the theory or the clinical moment via a myriad of homely and uncanny routes. It is a book that is engaging for psychoanalyst and the lay reader and captures his ability to grapple with complex matters in an accessible manner.
