Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p>