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About Leon Redler
and Steven Gans
Steve Gans and Leon Redler, one a philosopher, the other a
medical doctor, joined together to discuss the possibilities of enjoying living
with others in ethical, responsible ways. Their book of conversations (with Bob
Mullan), "Just Listening: Ethics and Therapy" was one outcome of their collaboration.
Their work shows that the art of good listening is the basis of healing relationships.
Leon and Steve, both Americans, were inspired and informed by R. D.
Laing, arguably the most radical, creative and/or controversial psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst of the latter part of the 20th century. Laing, the Glaswegian existential-phenomenological
psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author, was by the 1960's living and working in
London. Gans and Redler came to live and work in London to study with and apprentice
themselves to Laing.
During the 1990’s, while living and working in
London Steve Gans and Leon Redler, worked as a team, or 'double act.' They gave
seminars and workshops to people concerned with the provocations, problematics
and possibilities of enjoying living with others in ethical, responsible ways.
Their book of conversations (with Bob Mullan), "Just Listening: Ethics and Therapy"
was one outcome of their collaboration.
By the time of Laing's death,
Gans and Redler were extending what they most valued in his approach in an ethical
and deconstructive dimension. Gans' engagement with the texts of Plato, Martin
Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida (in particular) and Redler's engagement
with Zen and Tibetan Buddhist and other eastern and middle-eastern religious and
philosophical, or spiritual, teachings and practices served as a basis for what
became a thoughtful, sceptical, never dogmatic and ever inquiring practice of
Just Listening.
As the 20th century and 2nd millennium came to a close,
their ability to continue working together required that they find new ways to
do so when Gans returned to the USA to settle in Arizona, while Redler remained
a transplanted New Yorker in London.
The launch of a website in 2001,
shortly before 9/11, was a natural response to that geographical separation. At
this time, Following many 'teething' difficulties, the website is being relaunched,
redesigned and renewed as the international headquarters of a global Just Listening
Community.
Steven Gans  |
Dr. Steven Gans is a Healing Arts Practitioner,
a Philosopher, a Psychoanalyst, a Hypnotherapist and an Executive Coach.
He began his career as an Academic Philosopher receiving his Ph.D. from Penn
State University and teaching at a small New England College.
His interest
in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophic Practices led him to study Psychoanalysis
in London, England under the world famous Existential Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing.
Dr. Gans co-founded (with J.A. Miller) the first MA Program in Humanistic
Counseling and Psychotherapy in the U.K. at Antioch University, London. He also
founded and directed the University of Maryland’s Study in London Program and
the London branch of The Institute for Management Studies (IMS).
After
completing his Analytic Training, he became a Member of Laing’s Philadelphia Association,
joined its faculty and training committee and went into private practice.
Dr. Gans has practiced Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in London for over 25
years. He has written extensively for academic journals and books on Philosophy,
Psychoanalysis, Healing Practice and Heart Wisdom. His book, co-authored with
Dr. Leon Redler, Just Listening: Ethics and Therapy develops and expands the Laingian
tradition by emphasizing responsibility, goodness and justice in addition to the
power of love and holistic integration to heal.
As a result of his training
in Hypnotherapy at The Southwest Institute of the Healing Arts Dr.Gans has developed
a Psychoanalytic Hypnotherapy to accelerate the healing work and progress of his
clients.
He is the author of The Little Book of Goodness, (2003, www.booklocker.com).
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Leon Redler
Following
medical qualification and post-graduate training in pediatrics and psychiatry
in New York, Leon came to London in 1965 as a student/apprentice of R. D. Laing
and the Philadelphia Association, living and working with people in extremes of
mental distress in non-psychiatric settings. A practicing psychotherapist, he
is also a practitioner of the Alexander Technique, Hatha Yoga and Zen. He is a
past chairman of the Philadelphia Association and of its psychotherapy training
faculty. His therapy practice and The Mediation Partnership he co-directs are
based at the Diorama Center for Art, Therapy and Technology in London. Published
work includes articles on Laing, Levinas and Buddhist teachings and practice.
He is married and has three daughters
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