Misophonia is a condition in which everyday sounds evoke pain and reactive aversion. While its etiology is largely unknown, misophonia is typically conceptualized from a “one mind model” typically landing in the realm of auditory processing and neurobiological dysfunction.

In this presentation, Dayna Sharp offers an alternative understanding – misophonia as a complex interweaving of auditory, neurobiological and inevitably relational experience.

A case study will be presented from which we will explore the painful somatic-auditory bell of misophonia in context with self-with-other development, neurodivergence and trauma. In addition to considering relational-neurobiological pathways out of the misophonic experience, we hope participants will find a sense of expansiveness and creativity in psychoanalytic thought and practice that we find essential for navigating challenging self-with-other relational constellations.