Speaking with Silence. An Exploration of Silence and Its Relationship to Speech in Analytic Groups

Datos Bibliográficos

ID14775786
AutoresClaire Barnes, Claire S Barnes (autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen48
Número1
Páginas12-30
Fecha de publicación2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGroup Analysis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0533-3164 • E-ISSN: 1461-717X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0533316414566160
OpenAlexW1972960308
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas22

This article suggests that silence has been undervalued and neglected in group analysis. This includes the way it is split off from theoretical group paradigms, which traditionally hold verbal communication as central to therapeutic change. At the core of this argument is an assertion that speech and silence are inseparable and need to be understood in relationship to each other. The article also explores how silence might emerge in groups both helpfully and problematically. Using clinical examples, from her training group, the author describes two different kinds of group silences, which might be loosely identified as ‘mature’ and ‘primitive’. She discusses the complex dialectic between speech and silence emerging in these vignettes, suggesting that this is what underpins the therapeutic exchange and developments in these examples and in analytic groups generally

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Assertion · Dialectic · Epistemology · Group (periodic table · Silence · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications