Michelle Harwell PsyD, LMFT

WHEN PEOPLE TALK, LISTEN COMPLETELY. MOST PEOPLE NEVER LISTEN. -ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Muriel Dimen PhD, a brilliant listener and psychoanalytic writer, quotes Emily Dickison, “Tell it slant.” But she says instead, “Listen slant.” In other words, listen for the space in between, the place where reality seems air tight, zipped up, vacuum sealed.  It is in that space, we can truly begin to see anew. As a relational psychoanalyst and supervisor, I see my primary task as helping clinicians learn to listen from the inside out, to listen for what is evoked in the mind and body. This requires an apprenticeship of one's own interior, to learn to roam about internally with a promiscuity, to let our imaginations reign free in service of the client. It is a practice that must be cultivated and continually refined.

I am a training and supervising analyst and instructor at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. For over a decade I have trained and supervised emerging clinicians through a unique integration of contemporary psychoanalytic principles and the humanities, believing that our reverence for theory must live alongside a deep humility and respect for the complexity of the human story. I am the author of numerous papers and my writing interests are centered on the interior process of the analyst. For more information on Dr. Harwell:

Gabrielle Taylor PHd

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Jean Takahashi

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