Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Editors’ introduction

Acknowledgements

PART I
Cultural

Introduction to Part I

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

PART II
Clinical

Introduction to Part II

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

PART III
Research

Introduction to Part III: Researching silence in (therapeutic) conversation

13 Measuring silence: The pausing inventory categorization system and a review of findings

Heidi M. Levitt and 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 and Michael M. Franzen These authors contributed equally to this work

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, and Elke Schumann

Index