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OverviewWhile trauma has, rightfully, come to the centre of our attention, silencing, an equally important topic, has never been thoroughly studied. This book breaks that silencing and elaborates on various forms of this insidious process from different perspectives. It addresses the key question of how we can hear silencing and respond appropriately. Editors Michael B. Buchholz and Aleksandar Dimitrijevic´ are joined by Ana Altaras Dimitrijevic´, Uta Blohm, Roger Frie, Stephen Frosh, Babette Gekeler, Gail A. Hornstein, and Hans-Christoph Ramm to share their knowledge, research, and experience on these dark issues. Encountering Silencing is an invitation to closely observe the very practices and processes of silencing used by perpetrators of abuse and totalitarian institutions alike. A carefully selected group of contributors reveal the dark side of communication that silences victims, witnesses, and perpetrators: women, religious heretics, gifted children, victims of racism, psychoanalytic dissidents, and psychiatric patients; individuals and groups, total strangers and one's family members, as well as one own self. All of these forms of silencing are analysed with the help of literature, historiography, interviewing, archival research, and psychoanalytic and family therapy. This book helps us to face the seemingly inevitable conclusion that silencing is everywhere in our individual and social lives, and that it is the silencing of trauma that leads to mental disorders more than trauma itself. The hope is that by opening up these topics in a considered, containing, and thoughtful way, the underlying mechanisms of trauma-related disorders will be better understood and help victims to overcome them. Encountering Silencing is the first in a series of three books on this vital but overlooked subject. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael B. Buchholz , Aleksandar DimitrijevicPublisher: Karnac Books Imprint: Phoenix Publishing House Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.376kg ISBN: 9781800132412ISBN 10: 1800132417 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 18 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements About the editors and contributors Introduction: silencing the traumatised and hearing silencing Aleksandar Dimitrijević and Michael B. Buchholz 1. Silencing victims, witnesses, and perpetrators Michael B. Buchholz, Aleksandar Dimitrijević, and Hans-Christoph Ramm 2. “But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue”: examples of self-silencing in classical and contemporary literature Aleksandar Dimitrijević and Michael B. Buchholz 3. Traumatic disclosures and failures of listening Stephen Frosh 4. Racial massacres and silencing in the Deep South Roger Frie 5. Silencing of female voices in medical history: the silenced girl who cried pain Babette S. Gekeler 6. Silencing the voices of heretics and other religions Uta Blohm, Aleksandar Dimitrijević, and Michael B. Buchholz 7. Silence in the classroom: suppressing (gifted) students’ curiosity and creativity Ana Altaras Dimitrijević 8. Censorship and silencing artistic creativity Aleksandar Dimitrijević 9. Silencing creative voices in the history of psychoanalysis Aleksandar Dimitrijević 10. Examples of silencing in the psychotherapy office Aleksandar Dimitrijević 11. Dream-telling in family therapy sessions: how they can change silencing into hearables Michael B. Buchholz 12. First-person narratives of madness: the revenge of the silenced Gail A. Hornstein IndexReviews"‘Following their brilliant book From the Abyss of Loneliness: to the Bliss of Solitude, in which they teased out the silence in which loneliness tends to germinate, the writers and co-editors Buchholz and Dimitrijevic turn their magnifying glass and sound amplifiers into the eye of the storm and encounter silencing. Gathering an impressive list of contributors in their new co-edited book, Encountering Silencing, they examine meticulously the intricacies of active silencing of victims, perpetrators, and witnesses – the triad of participants in traumatic events – spreading from self-silencing to the denial and disavowal in socio-political groups and institutions of the truth about traumatic experiences. They do not shy away from facing the long tradition of silencing creative voices in the history of psychoanalysis as well. In this book, with the help of their contributors, Buchholz and Dimitrijevic recognize that silencing is a human form of communication, inspired by the malignant consequence of power. They emphasize that it is the act of silencing and not the trauma per se that leads to emotional suffering and mental pain. This book does more than paint the roadmap of the processes and mechanisms involved in silencing and its consequences so we can recognize them as clinicians. It is also an invitation for all of us to sharpen our skills and expertise and nurture the courage that is needed in the important battle against acts of silencing. At the end of this book, I was left with the sensation that there is already another book in the making by this duo, a book about power that I'm already eager to read.’ -- Ofra Bloch, psychoanalyst and filmmaker ‘There are few innovative concepts in psychoanalysis these days. The active, mostly unconscious intrapersonal or social imposition of silence, preventing giving voice to experience, charts a fresh and essential course through clinical and societal experience. As psychoanalysts we know that “words matter” but are perhaps less troubled than we should be by the causes, manifestations, mechanisms and treatment of individuals who are deprived of or deprive themselves of hearing ideas spoken. This fascinating book explores in a fascinating multifaceted way perhaps the most fundamental of psychoanalytic ideas – why is the expression of experience in words so close to the core of what is uniquely human, and what happens when forces combine to prevent full manifestation of experience. The editors brought together some of the most sophisticated writers in our discipline to re-explore core psychoanalytic ideas through this innovative lens. The result is an outstanding highly original and immensely valuable collection of perspectives on what may be one of the most important idea in contemporary psychoanalysis. A major book that is likely to become a classic contribution.’ -- Peter Fonagy, OBE, FMedSci, FBA, PhD, Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science, UCL; Chief Executive, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London 'The editors and authors of this fabulous book complement the psychoanalytic focus on the intrapsychic dialectics of experiences included and excluded from consciousness with a focus on collective processes of experiences included and excluded from public discourse. They discuss both small (psychoanalytic associations) and large “groups"" (subcultures, entire societies). The book is a crucial contribution to connecting psychological with cultural and social analyses. This volume will inspire all readers interested in understanding the psychology of collective emotions and memories.' -- Tilmann Habermas, Professor of Psychoanalysis, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main, Germany" Author InformationProf. Dr. Michael B. Buchholz studied psychology and social sciences, fully trained as a psychoanalyst, training analyst in Göttingen (Germany), taught social psychology at International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin until retirement in autumn 2020. His main interests are to combine psychoanalysis and the study of psychotherapeutic conversation, thus the application of conversation analysis as a method of microscopic observation applicable in social situations, including of violence. He has published more than 25 books and more than 300 papers on family therapy, treatment technique, supervision, conversation analysis, and violence. Aleksandar Dimitrijević, Ph.D., 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 US. He is the 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 eleven books or special journal issues, the most recent of which are Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions (with Gabriele Cassullo and Jay Frankel, 2018) and Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis (with Michael B. Buchholz, 2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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