Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis

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.

Michael B. Buchholz is professor of social psychology at International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin, Germany. He is a psychologist and social scientist and a fully trained psychoanalyst. He is head of the Doctorate Program at IPU and chair of the social psychological department. He has published more than 20 books and more than 350 scientific papers on topics like analysis of therapeutic metaphors and therapeutic conversation, including the supervisory process, and he has contributed to psychoanalytic treatment technique, theory, and history. Michael has conducted conversation analytic studies on group therapy with sexual offenders about therapeutic "contact scenarios," as well as on therapeutic empathy. His current interest is the study of therapeutic talk-in-interaction using Conversation Analysis. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. He works as a lecturer at the International Psychoanalytic University and in private practice in Berlin. He has given lectures, seminars, university courses, and conference presentations throughout Europe and in the United States of America. He is author of many conceptual and empirical papers about attachment theory and research, psychoanalytic education, and psychoanalysis and the arts, some of which were translated into German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has also edited or co-edited ten other books or special journal issues, most recent of which is Ferenczi's Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions (with Gabriele Cassullo and Jay Frankel, 2018).

Section I - Cultural. Introduction to Section I 1.Silence in phenomenology: dream or nightmare? 2.Encountering religious and spiritual silences 3.Forms and Functions of Silence and Silencing. An Approach from Linguistics and Conversation Analysis with Reference to Psychotherapy 4.The many forms of silence in music 5.Silence in an Age of Distraction Section II - Clinical. Introduction to Section II 6.Cultural function and psychological transformation of silence in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy 7.Varieties of silence in the analytic setting 8.Silence as a manifestation of resistance 9.Silence is Golden (Usually) 10.Winnicott's Capacity for Silence in Understanding and Healing Human Nature 11.Silence As A Condition For Analytic Listening. Site, Situation and Process 12.Silence and silencing of the traumatized Section III - Research. Introduction to Section III 13.Measuring Silence. The Pausing Inventory Categorization System and a Review of Findings 14.Pauses are Conversations. What they tell us when we listen 15.How to move on after silences: Addressing thought processes to restart conversation 16.The interaction order of silent moments in everyday life: Lapses as joint embodied achievements 17.Speaking that silences. A single case multi-method analysis of a couple's interview. Concluding thoughts

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