Description
This book is the first comprehensive treatment in recent decades of silence and silencing in psychoanalysis from clinical and research perspectives, as well as in philosophy, theology, linguistics, and musicology.
The book approaches silence and silencing on three levels. First, it provides context for psychoanalytic approaches to silence through chapters about silence in phenomenology, theology, linguistics, musicology, and contemporary Western society. Its central part is devoted to the position of silence in psychoanalysis: its types and possible meanings (a form of resistance, in countertransference, the foundation for listening and further growth), based on both the work of the pioneers of psychoanalysis and on clinical case presentations. Finally, the book includes reports of conversation analytic research of silence in psychotherapeutic sessions and everyday communication. Not only are original techniques reported here for the first time, but research and clinical approaches fit together in significant ways.
This book will be of interest to all psychologists, psychoanalysts, and social scientists, as well as applied researchers, program designers and evaluators, educators, leaders, and students. It will also provide valuable insight to anyone interested in the social practices of silence and silencing, and the roles these play in everyday social interactions.
Table of Contents
Table of contents
Section I- Cultural
Introduction to Section I
Michael B. Buchholz & Aleksandar Dimitrijevic
1. Silence in phenomenology: dream or nightmare?
Donna Orange
2. Encountering religious and spiritual silences-
Colum Kenny
3. Forms and Functions of Silence and Silencing. An Approach from Linguistics and Conversation Analysis with Reference to Psychotherapy
Silvia Bonacchi
4. The many forms of silence in music
Helga de la Motte-Haber
5. Silence in an Age of Distraction
Patrick Shen
Section II – Clinical
Introduction to Section II
Michael B. Buchholz & Aleksandar Dimitrijevic
6. Cultural function and psychological transformation of silence in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy
Elsa Ronningstam
7. Varieties of silence in the analytic setting
Salman Akhtar
8. Silence as a manifestation of resistance
Aleksandar Dimitrijević
9. Silence is Golden (Usually)
Jay Frankel
10. Winnicott’s Capacity for Silence in Understanding and Healing Human Nature
Margaret Boyle Spelman
11. Silence As A Condition For Analytic Listening. Site, Situation and Process
Howard B. Levine
12. Silence and silencing of the traumatized
Aleksandar Dimitrijević
Section III - Research
Introduction to Section III
Michael B. Buchholz & Aleksandar Dimitrijevic
13. Measuring Silence. The Pausing Inventory Categorization System and a Review of Findings
Heidi M. Levitt & Zenobia Morrill
14. Pauses are Conversations. What they tell us when we listen
Michael B. Buchholz
15. How to move on after silences: Addressing thought processes to restart conversation
Florian Dreyer, Michael M. Franzen
16. The interaction order of silent moments in everyday life: Lapses as joint embodied achievements
Anna Vatanen
17. Speaking that silences. A single case multi-method analysis of a couple’s interview
Michael B. Buchholz, Oliver Ehmer, Christopher Mahlstedt, Stefan Pfänder, Elke Schumann
Concluding thoughts
Michael B. Buchholz & Aleksandar Dimitrijevic
