Encountering Silencing

Forms of Oppression in Individuals, Families and Communities

Michael B. Buchholz, Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2024
Phoenix Publishing House (Verlag)
978-1-80013-241-2 (ISBN)

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While 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 Dimitrijević are joined by Ana Altaras Dimitrijević, 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.

Prof. 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).

Acknowledgements

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

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Hearing Silencing
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80013-241-7 / 1800132417
ISBN-13	978-1-80013-241-2 / 9781800132412
Zustand	Neuware